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Summary
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Seven days. Seven keys. Seven virtues. Seven sins. One mysterious house is the doorway to a very mysterious world - where one boy is about to venture and unlock a number of fantastical secrets.
Author Notes
Garth Nix was born in Melbourne, Australia on July 19, 1963. He graduated from the University of Canberra in 1986 and worked various jobs within the publishing industry until 1994. After a stint in public relations, he returned to books and took up writing as a career. He is the author of Blood Ties, Clariel, Newt's Emerald, the Old Kingdom series, The Seventh Tower series, and The Keys to the Kingdom series. In 1999, he received a Golden Duck Award for Australian Contribution to Children's Science Fiction. To Hold the Bridge was named Best Collection by the 2015 Aurealis Awards. His novella, By Frogsled and Lizardback to Outcast Venusian Lepers, was named Best Science Fiction Novella by the 2015 Aurealis Awards. In 2018, he won the 2017 Aurealis Award for the Best science-fiction short story.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (3)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 5-8-The third book in Garth Nix's popular fantasy series (Scholastic, 2005) continues the highly imaginative adventures of Arthur Penhaligon by recounting his experiences during a riveting high sea adventure. While in the hospital recovering from a leg injury, Arthur and his friend Leaf are transported into another realm via a wave of seawater. As the adventure unfolds, Arthur uses his unique powers to rescue them from danger. Students who have read the previous books will be better able to understand this new installment. Narrator Allan Corduner uses alternating voices to transfer Garth Nix's intriguing characters from the printed page into believable personalities. His crisp and clear reading is true to the pace and action of the book. Transitions between chapters are distinguished by brief pauses. Corduner's polished narration combines well with Nix's strong characterization and plot. Those who own the first two offerings in the series will want to add this volume to their collections.-Lynn K. Vanca, Akron-Summit County Public Library, OH (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Horn Book Review
In his third tale, Arthur finally tries to accept his fate as Master of the House. To get the third key (he needs seven to complete his quest), he battles pirates and a ""monstrous white whale"" with an insatiable appetite. Nix's imagination knows no bounds in this rollicking high seas adventure. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Booklist Review
Gr. 5-8. One senses a formidable imagination in freefall in Nix's Keys to the Kingdom series, and experiencing it can be at once exhilarating and overwhelming. In this third of seven planned installments, each set on a successive day of a single week, Arthur Penhaligon is summoned from his hospital bed by Lady Wednesday, who has metamorphosed into a 126-mile-long whale. Burdened with asthma, a broken leg, and still-fresh shock at how inextricably his fate is tied to the House (the epicenter of the Universe ), Arthur plies the Border Sea in search of the Third Part of the Will. The conclusion melds Pinocchio and 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, bringing into play a fearsome pirate, mercenary rats, a ship incompetently crewed by accountants, and allies old and new, human and otherworldly. New readers may find the backstory about Arthur's quest to vanquish the Morrow Days and to reassemble the Architect's Will frustratingly esoteric, but those who appreciated the freewheeling invention of Mister Monday (2003) and Grim Tuesday (2004) will emerge from the third book with enthusiasm unabated. --Jennifer Mattson Copyright 2005 Booklist