01363nam a22002177a 45000010005000000030006000050050017000110080041000280400030000690500014000990820013001131000024001262450033001502600037001833000025002204900038002455050007002835200822002905210018011127000015011303721FISKH20240424104354.0240424b        cb ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aFISK beng cFISK dFISK   aPZ7.N647   a823.914   aNix Garth  d1963-   aMister monday / cGarth Nix   aNew York : bScholastic, c2003   a361 pages : c20 cm   aThe keys to the kingdom vBook 1   aM   aArthur Penhaligon is not supposed to be a hero. He is, in fact, supposed to die an early death. But then his life is saved by a key shaped like the minute hand of a clock.

Arthur is safe�??but his world is not. Along with the key comes a plague brought by bizarre creatures from another realm. A stranger named Mister Monday, his avenging messengers with bloodstained wings, and an army of dog-faced Fetchers will stop at nothing to get the key back�??even if it means destroying Arthur and everything around him.

Desperate, Arthur ventures into a mysterious house�?? a house that only he can see. It is in this house that Arthur must unravel the secrets of the key�??and discover his true fate.

The first book of a spellbinding series by Garth Nix, the author of The Seventh Tower, Sabriel, Lirael, and A 8 a800 bLexile   aGarth Nix