Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Popular Genres

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

Year of the Griffin (Derkholm, #2)

Year of the Griffin (Derkholm, #2)

Diana Wynne Jones
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
It is eight years after the tours from offworld have stopped. High Chancellor Querida has retired, leaving Wizard Corkoran in charge of the Wizards' University. Although Wizard Corkoran's obsession is to be the first man on the moon, and most of his time is devoted to this project, he decides he will teach the new first years himself in hopes of currying the favor of the new students' families—for surely they must all come from wealth, important families—and obtaining money for the University . But Wizard Corkoran is dismayed to discover that one of those students—indeed, one he had such high hopes for, Wizard Derk's own daughter Elda—is a huge golden griffin, and that none of the others has any money at all.

Wizard Corkoran's money-making scheme backfires, and when Elda and her new friends start working magic on their own, the schemes go wronger still. And when, at length, Elda ropes in her brothers Kit and Blade to send Corkoran to the moon... well... life at the Wizards' University spins magically and magnificently out of control.

This breathtakingly brilliant sequel to Dark Lord of Derkholm is all one would expect from this master of genre.
Language
English
Pages
404
Format
Paperback
Release
August 19, 2000
ISBN 13
9780575075375

Year of the Griffin (Derkholm, #2)

Diana Wynne Jones
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
It is eight years after the tours from offworld have stopped. High Chancellor Querida has retired, leaving Wizard Corkoran in charge of the Wizards' University. Although Wizard Corkoran's obsession is to be the first man on the moon, and most of his time is devoted to this project, he decides he will teach the new first years himself in hopes of currying the favor of the new students' families—for surely they must all come from wealth, important families—and obtaining money for the University . But Wizard Corkoran is dismayed to discover that one of those students—indeed, one he had such high hopes for, Wizard Derk's own daughter Elda—is a huge golden griffin, and that none of the others has any money at all.

Wizard Corkoran's money-making scheme backfires, and when Elda and her new friends start working magic on their own, the schemes go wronger still. And when, at length, Elda ropes in her brothers Kit and Blade to send Corkoran to the moon... well... life at the Wizards' University spins magically and magnificently out of control.

This breathtakingly brilliant sequel to Dark Lord of Derkholm is all one would expect from this master of genre.
Language
English
Pages
404
Format
Paperback
Release
August 19, 2000
ISBN 13
9780575075375

More books from Diana Wynne Jones

Castle in the Air

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Charmed Life

3.9/5 ( ratings)

House of Many Ways

4/5 ( ratings)

The Lives of Christopher Chant

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume 1

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Dark Lord of Derkholm

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Witch Week

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Howl's Moving Castle

4.3/5 ( ratings)

The Magicians of Caprona

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Merlin Conspiracy

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Eight Days of Luke

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Time of the Ghost

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Crown of Dalemark

4/5 ( ratings)

Howl's Moving Castle Picture Book

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Drowned Ammet

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Worlds of Chrestomanci (Chrestomanci, #1-4)

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Year of the Griffin

4/5 ( ratings)

Fire and Hemlock

4/5 ( ratings)

The Pinhoe Egg

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?

loader