Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Map

Note by Cressida Cowell Lost-Language Expert

Prologue

Part One: Forest on Fire

Chapter 1. Betrayal

Chapter 2. The Trees Are Screaming

Chapter 3. Queen Sychorax Is Not a Huggy Sort of Mother

Chapter 4. Exit, Rescued By a Bear

Chapter 5. The Tunnel of Fire

Chapter 6. In the Lair of the Bear

Chapter 7. Are They in the Learning Place for Spectacularly Gifted Wizards or Are They NOT?

Chapter 8. The Nuckalavee

Part Two: Refuge

Chapter 9. The Learning Place for Spectacularly Gifted Wizards

Chapter 10. Two Alarming Incidents

Chapter 11. The Surprising Things You Learn When You Spend a Day as Someone Else

Chapter 12. The Story Takes Another Unexpected Turn

Chapter 13. Bodkin’s Letter

Chapter 14. Encanzo and Sychorax Have a Little Explaining to Do

Chapter 15. The Chase

Part Three: The Shadow Quest

Chapter 16. The Beach of Shoes

Chapter 17. In the Sea Cave of the Nuckalavee

Chapter 18. Dead Boys Can’t Make Bargains

Chapter 19. The Riddle of the Nuckalavee

Chapter 20. Did You Think a Quest for Courage Was Going to Be Easy?

Chapter 21. Will the Parents Be Too Late?

Chapter 22. Inside the Mouth of the Nuckalavee

Chapter 23. We Are All on a Quest Without Knowing the Rules Yet

Chapter 24. Two Angry Parents

Chapter 25. X Marks the Spot

Chapter 26. Catch Them if You Can

Epilogue

Acknowledgments (Thank-yous)

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