The Silver Arrow

From #1 Bestselling Author

Lev Grossman

Dear Uncle Herbert,

You’ve never met me, but I’m your niece Kate, and since it is my birthday tomorrow and you are super rich could you please send me a present?

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Kate and her younger brother, Tom, lead terribly boring lives. And if their terribly boring parents are anything to go by, they don’t have much to look forward to. Why can’t Kate have thrilling adventures and save the world the way people do in books? Even her eleventh birthday is shaping up to be mundane—that is, until her mysterious and highly irresponsible uncle Herbert surprises her with the most unexpected, exhilarating, inappropriate birthday present of all time: a colossal steam locomotive called the Silver Arrow.

Kate and Tom’s parents want to send it right back where it came from. But Kate and Tom have other ideas—and so does the Silver Arrow—and soon they’re off to distant lands along magical rail lines in the company of an assortment of exotic animals who, it turns out, can talk. With only curiosity, excitement, their own resourcefulness, and the thrill of the unknown to guide them, Kate and Tom are on the adventure of a lifetime…and they just might end up saving the world after all.

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