Product Description
All Kim wants to do is play Dungeons & Dragons with his friends and ride his bike around the local lake. But he has always lived in the shadow of his younger sister. Eila is a prodigy, and everyone talks about how smart she is, though in Kim's eyes, she has no common sense. So when Eila finds an enigmatic, otherworldly globe which gives her astonishing powers, Kim not only has to save his sister from herself, he might also have to save the world from his sister!
With his trademark creeping menace and a strong sense of 1970s nostalgia, bestselling fantasy author Garth Nix (Sabriel, Mister Monday, The Left-Handed Booksellers of London) has expertly crafted this pacy and exciting standalone middle grade novel.
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family, friends, adventure, danger, mind control
Set in an alternate Australia in the 70s, a group of young children, including 12-year-old Kim Basalt and his friend Bennie and their sisters, start a game of Dungeons and Dragons. While out one night, Kim’s sister, Eila, discovers a glowing sphere. The sphere, Aster, is capable of learning, healing, hurting, and mind control, and Kim becomes increasingly concerned that Aster is perhaps part of an alien invasion. A fascinating sci-fi adventure about a group of kids trying to prevent an alien invasion for fans of Stranger Things.
