Kevin Sands
Author
Series
Blackthorn key volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
"'Tell no one what I've given you.' Until he got that cryptic warning, Christopher Rowe was happy, learning how to solve complex codes and puzzles and creating powerful medicines, potions, and weapons as an apprentice to Master Benedict Blackthorn, with maybe an explosion or two along the way. But when a mysterious cult begins to prey on London's apothecaries, the trail of murders grows closer and closer to Blackthorn's shop With time running out,...
Author
Series
Blackthorn key volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
As the plague decimates London in 1665 and an assassin threatens the apothecary's life, apprentice Christopher Rowe and his faithful friend Tom, following a trail of puzzles, riddles, and secrets, risk their lives to untangle the heart of a dark conspiracy.
Author
Series
Blackthorn key volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Christopher Rowe is shipwrecked in Devonshire, where children are disappearing and a ghost is suspected, but even Tom and Sally's arrival may not cure his amnesia in time to help.
Author
Series
Blackthorn key volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
When Christopher Rowe's code-breaking uncovers the true target of an assassination attempt, he and his friends are odered to Paris to investigate a centuries-old curse on the French throne.
Author
Series
Thieves of shadow volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"Callan and four other young criminals are recruited to pull off a difficult heist from the city's most powerful sorcerer"--
Author
Series
Thieves of shadow volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Rule number one: Never mess with magic. Even so, a life-or-death situation calls for Callan and his criminal friends to make a deal with the Eye--the sinister, sentient artifact they stole from a sorcerer. It's Lachlan's life in exchange for a future task, and the gang has no choice but to agree. But even as Lachlan is resurrected, it's not without cost. Through the Eye, Callan can see a tiny purple stain inside Lachlan's soul, which will eventually...
Author
Series
Blackthorn key volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In 1665 London, fourteen-year-old Christopher Rowe, apprentice to an apothecary, and his best friend Tom try to uncover the truth behind a mysterious cult, following a trail of puzzles, codes, pranks, and danger toward an unearthly secret with the power to tear the world apart.
Author
Series
Thieves of shadow volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Commanded by the magical artifact known as the Dragon's Eye, junior con artist Callan and his friends are eagerly reaching the end of the epic quest that will finally free him from the Eye's sinister hold. But their final task is their most ambitious: sneaking into the emperor's private island prison and rescuing a man from a jail cell that has been locked tight for a hundred years. This impossible heist will strain the gang's unique abilities to...
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