The Cabinet of Wonders
by Marie Rutkoski (Author)
Petra Kronos has a simple, happy life. But it’s never been ordinary. She has a pet tin spider named Astrophil who likes to hide in her snarled hair and give her advice. Her best friend can trap lightning inside a glass sphere. Petra also has a father in faraway Prague who is able to move metal with his mind. He has been commissioned by the prince of Bohemia to build the world’s finest astronomical clock. Petra’s life is forever changed when, one day, her father returns home—blind. The prince has stolen his eyes, enchanted them, and now wears them. But why? Petra doesn’t know, but she knows this: she will go to Prague, sneak into Salamander Castle, and steal her father’s eyes back. Joining forces with Neel, whose fingers extend into invisible ghosts that pick locks and pockets, Petra finds that many people in the castle are not what they seem, and that her father’s clock has powers capable of destroying their world.
Kronos Chronicles Series—Summary and Book Order
Series: Kronos ChroniclesReading level: 10+
Books in series: 3
Read in order? Yes
Next release: Finished
Tags: fantasy adventure magic mystery family illness & grief
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Books in series order
1. The Cabinet of Wonders (2008)2. The Celestial Globe (2009)
3. The Jewel of the Kalderash (2011)