The Real Boy
The Real Boy by Anne Ursu, published by HarperCollins on February 3, 2015, is a reprint edition comprising 352 pages in English. This fantasy narrative follows Oscar, a shop boy working for a powerful magician on an island surrounded by an immense sea. While Oscar enjoys the comfort of his small world in the dark cellar, he grapples with feelings of not quite fitting into the larger, unpredictable reality around him.
As the story unfolds, Oscar’s familiar environment is disrupted by a mysterious illness affecting the children in the city and an ominous presence in the forest. Readers will find a tale that explores themes of friendship, self-esteem, and self-reliance, as Oscar confronts the changing dynamics of his world and the limits of the magic he once relied upon. This edition invites readers into a richly imagined setting where the balance between safety and danger is delicately maintained.
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National Book Award Longlist * Bank Street Children’s Book Committee Best Book of the Year
“Beautifully written and elegantly structured, this fantasy is as real as it gets.”—Franny Billingsley, author of Chime
The Real Boy, Anne Ursu’s follow-up to her widely acclaimed and beloved middle grade fantasy Breadcrumbs, is a spellbinding tale of the power we all wield, great and small.
On an island on the edge of an immense sea there is a city, a forest, and a boy named Oscar. Oscar is a shop boy for the most powerful magician in the village, and spends his days in a small room in the dark cellar of his master’s shop grinding herbs and dreaming of the wizards who once lived on the island generations ago. Oscar’s world is small, but he likes it that way. The real world is vast, strange, and unpredictable. And Oscar does not quite fit in it.
But now that world is changing. Children in the city are falling ill, and something sinister lurks in the forest. Oscar has long been content to stay in his small room in the cellar, comforted in the knowledge that the magic that flows from the forest will keep his island safe. Now even magic may not be enough to save it.
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