| Bluecrowne: A Greenglass House Story |
Fans of Greenglass House rejoice! Kate Milford gives us some Greenglass House
history in Bluecrowne.
Lucy Bluecrowne has been raised on a schooner. The
Left-Handed Fate is her home, but in the early 1800s, a ship is not a safe
place for a little girl. Lucy’s father
and the rest of the crew regularly do battle with other ships. When Lucy is injured in one of those battles,
her father decides enough is enough. He
and Lucy retrieve her stepmother, Xiaoming, and her stepbrother, Liao, from
their home in China. When they make
landfall in Nagspeake, they know they have arrived at their new home.
Lucy begins the process of moving into the beautiful
Greenglass House but longs for her home at sea.
She is terribly sad to be left at the house while her father continues
his life aboard ship. In an attempt to
keep her happy, her father offers to buy her a small boat – her first
command! Lucy is thrilled, and drags
Liao along to find one.
For his part, Liao is obsessed with fire and fireworks,
and at seven years old is quite skilled with pyrotechnics. Greenglass House will be different from
China, but will at least offer him his own workshop.
As the two siblings set out to explore their new surroundings,
they meet two peddlers, Trigemine and Blister, who are awfully interested in
them. Aware of Liao’s love
of fire, Blister offers to bring him some supplies that can help him put on a
thrilling show. But these peddlers are
not what they seem.
Trigemine and Blister arrive at Greenglass House and lure Liao into his workshop. When
Lucy sees a big explosion, she fears that Liao is dead. When she can’t find him, she becomes frantic. She soon begins to realize that Trigemine and
Blister have powers beyond her imagining.
But to her surprise, her stepmother does too!
Join the early inhabitants of Greenglass House on an
adventure that crosses space and time, and that brings ancient Chinese
mythology to life in a blaze of glory!
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