Now even magic may not be enough to save it. 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. Children in the city are falling ill, and something sinister lurks in the forest. The Real Boy, Anne Ursu’s follow-up to her widely acclaimed and beloved middle-grade fantasy Breadcrumbs, is an unforgettable story of magic, faith, and friendship. And Oscar does not quite fit in it.īut now that world is changing. 'A shy boy named Oscar who works as the hand to a powerful magic worker becomes the only person who can save his village from an evil monster'. The real world is vast, strange, and unpredictable. Pinocchio (Fictitious character) - Juvenile fiction, Pinocchio (Fictitious character), Magic - Juvenile fiction, Herbalists - Juvenile fiction, Magic paraphernalia - Juvenile fiction, Apprentices - Juvenile fiction, Recluses - Juvenile fiction, Magic - Fiction. Oscar's world is small, but he likes it that way. 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. On an island on the edge of an immense sea there is a city, a forest, and a boy named Oscar. 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. 'Beautifully written and elegantly structured, this fantasy is as real as it gets.'-Franny Billingsley, author of Chime

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The Real Boy by Anne Ursu