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Cornelia Funke’s imaginative ode to books and book lovers is sure to be enjoyed by fans of her breakout debut, The Thief Lord, and young readers who enjoyed the similarly themed The Great Good Thing by Roderick Townley. (Ages 10 to 15) --Jennifer Hubert

Adventure abounds in this absorbing installment of the New York Times bestselling series.

Rose and Lissa become enmeshed in forbidden romance, the Academy’s ruthless social scene, and unspeakable nighttime rituals. But they must be careful lest the Strigoi—the world’s fiercest and most dangerous vampires—make Lissa one of them forever.

Of course, it's that sort of earnest, almost gushing veneration of books and book-loving that made the absorbing suspense-fantasy Inkheart so wonderful in the first place, with that lit-affection getting woven integrally into the plot (Inkheart being both Funke's first book in the series, and the fictitious book within that book, authored by the frustrated Fenoglio, now trapped within the book, er, within the book. Fenoglio, perhaps not surprisingly, self-referentially wishes in Inkspell that he had written a sequel to Inkheart.) Inkspell should serve as a special treat for fans of the first book, as characters from Inkheart who have found themselves in the "real world" (if there is such a thing) find themselves read back into their own mythic, word-spun world--along with some of our favorite "real-world" characters. As with the previous book, Funke's greatest accomplishment here is telling such a rich and involving (and fun!) story, while still managing sweet, subtle commentary on the nature of words and meaning. Expect a tantalizing finale, too--as Funke says, "No reader will forgive me the ending, though, without a part three." (Ages 8 and up) --Paul Hughes

Description in Spanish: «Cuando el papel me corto el dedo, solo salio una gota de sangre del pequeno corte. Entonces, todo paso muy rapido;No!, rugio Edward... Aturdida y desorientada, miro la brillante sangre roja que salia de mi brazo y despues a los ojos enfebrecidos de seis vampiros repentinamente hambrientos.» Para Bella Swan, hay una cosa mas importante que su propia vida: Edward Cullen. Pero enamorarse de un vampiro es mas peligroso de lo que Bella nunca podria haber imaginado. Edward ya ha rescatado a Bella de las garras de un diabolico vampiro, pero ahora, a medida que su arriesgada relacion amenaza todo lo que es cercano y querido para ellos, se dan cuenta que sus problemas puede que solo esten empezando...