His sisters return to save him, but lose the book (the eponymous 'Emerald Atlas').
Kate and Emma escape, but Michael is accidentally left behind. The Countess notices the three orphans and calls upon her grotesque henchmen, designated Screechers, to capture them. There, the children observe a witch, titled the Countess, vowing to kill a child every week until the enslaved fathers of the children find what she seeks. When an old photograph is touched to a page of the open book, the children are teleported to the date and location on which the photograph was taken. In the basement, a door appears before them, and they discover an emerald-colored book containing no text. There, they are introduced to its owner, Dr. After their rejection by a prospective adoptive mother, the children's current residence (called the Edgar Allan Poe Home for Incorrigible and Hopeless Orphans) sends them to a mansion situated in Cambridge Falls. Kate, the eldest, remembers that, ten years ago on Christmas Eve, her mother had made her promise to protect her siblings, and in turn promised the family's reunion. Kate, Emma, and Michael are siblings shifted from one orphanage to another over their lifetimes. As the siblings encounter various magical races in an effort to dispel the witch, Kate discovers that she is intrinsically bound to the Atlas, and that the three children are subject to an ancient prophecy. Upon traveling to the past, they happen across a witch who has enslaved the nearby town, Cambridge Falls, in an attempt to find the book, known as the Atlas, that the children possess. Pym, where they find a magical book that grants the power of moving through time. The book follows orphan siblings Kate, Michael, and Emma who, following a succession of unsuccessful orphanage dwellings, are transferred to the mansion of Dr. The second book, The Fire Chronicle, was released in 2012.
Chapter 4: The Countess of Cambridge Falls.Chapter 3: The King and Queens of France.And-if an ancient prophecy is correct-what they do can change history, and it is up to them to set things right. Ripped from their parents as babies, they are being protected from a horrible evil of devastating power, an evil they know nothing about.īefore long, Kate, Michael, and Emma are on a journey to dangerous and secret corners of the world.a journey of allies and enemies, of magic and mayhem. Yet these unwanted children are more remarkable than they could possibly imagine. Kate, Michael, and Emma have been in one orphanage after another for the last ten years, passed along like lost baggage.
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