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516 pp.
| Houghton |
May, 2009 |
TradeISBN 978-0-547-07665-2$17.00
(4)
4-6
Alfonso, who can perform amazing feats during his frequent sleepwalking episodes, discovers that he is the fated savior of a kingdom of people hidden in the Ural Mountains who function while asleep. A challenging journey, an accumulation of variously odd characters and settings, and a lot of improbable problem-solving make for an entertaining but overlong middle-grade fantasy.