The Cockatrice Boys

Joan Aiken; Illustrations by Jason Van Hollander

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What does a cockatrice enjoy most for dinner? Anyone it can find.

So the alarmed inhabitants of England discover when a plague of monsters-known as cockatrices-invade their country and begin gobbling them up. They must be stopped! A plucky band of survivors dubbed the Cockatrice Corps- including youngsters Dakin and Sauna-decide to fight back. But how?

A rollicking adventure filled with breathtaking twists and turns, The Cockatrice Boys is Joan Aiken at her comic best.

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Chapter one
 
 
Nobody seemed to know where the dreadful things came from. Some people said one thing, some said another.
But experts mostly agree as to the day when the evil invasion of the British Isles first began.
It was on a wretched rainy Sunday in the month of September. Recently the winters had all been bitterly cold and snowy, while the summers were shorter and windier and wetter. On this September Sunday people were coming home from their holidays, flying in from Sardinia and Spain and Sicily.

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"Readers will be reminded of Alice in Wonderland. . .and the movie trilogy Star Wars."--School Library Journal

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Joan Aiken; Illustrations by Jason Van Hollander

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The Cockatrice Boys
Joan Aiken; Illustrations by Jason Van Hollander
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Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library

Mass Market Paperbound

Mass Market Paperbound
Tom Doherty Associates
Starscape
March 2002
Mass Market Paperbound
ISBN: 9780765342317
ISBN10: 0765342316
Middle-Grade Fiction
5 3/16 x 7 5/8 inches, 224 pages, B&W Illustrations Throughout
Age Range: 10 and up
Grade Range: 5 and up
$5.99
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