Chronicles of the Red King #3: Leopards' Gold (24 page)
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Authors: Jenny Nimmo
“[H]ighly appealing …”
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Publishers Weekly
“The world is richly developed, and the magical creatures therein are both fascinating and frightening. Timoken is a noble, likable hero.”
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Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
“Nimmo pulls out all the stops, creating three main characters with distinct personalities and placing them in an action-packed fantasy with drama, tension, and welcome bits of humor.”
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Booklist
“Readers will be instantly drawn into the author’s captivating and thrilling tale of magic and adventure…. [Nimmo] spins her magical web in this well-paced and expertly crafted tale.”
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School Library Journal
I was born in Windsor, Berkshire, England, and educated at boarding schools in Kent and Surrey from the age of six until I was sixteen, when I ran away from school to become a drama student/assistant stage manager with Theater South East. I graduated and acted in repertory theater in various towns and cities.
I left Britain to teach English to three Italian boys in Amalfi, Italy. On my return, I joined the BBC, first as a picture researcher, then assistant floor manager, studio manager (news), and finally director/adaptor with
Jackanory
(a BBC storytelling program for children). I left the BBC to marry Welsh artist David Wynn-Millward and went to live in Wales in my husband’s family home. We live in a very old converted water mill, and the river is constantly threatening to break in, which it has done several times in the past, most dramatically on our youngest child’s first birthday. During the summer, we run a residential school of art, and I have to move my office, put down tools (typewriter and pencils), and don an apron and cook! We have three grown-up children, Myfanwy, Ianto, and Gwenhwyfar.
CHRONICLES OF THE RED KING
The Secret Kingdom
The Stones of Ravenglass
Midnight for Charlie Bone
Charlie Bone and the Time Twister
Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy
Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors
Charlie Bone and the Hidden King
Charlie Bone and the Beast
Charlie Bone and the Shadow
Charlie Bone and the Red Knight
The Snow Spider
Emlyn’s Moon
The Chestnut Soldier
Griffin’s Castle
The Dragon’s Child
Copyright © 2013 by Jenny Nimmo
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Nimmo, Jenny.
Leopards’ gold / Jenny Nimmo. — 1st ed.
p. cm. — (Chronicles of the red king ; 3)
Summary: It is years since King Timoken, his sister, Zobayda, and his friends settled in the enchanted Red Castle, but now they are all threatened by the evil beyond the castle’s protective spells — and it will be up to two of Timoken’s nine children, Petrello and Tolomeo, to find out which of their siblings is the traitor in their midst, and defeat their enemies.
ISBN 978-0-545-25185-3 (jacketed hardcover) 1. Magic — Juvenile fiction. 2. Kings and rulers — Juvenile fiction. 3. Brothers and sisters — Juvenile fiction. 4. Castles — Fiction. [1. Magic — Fiction. 2. Kings, queens, rulers, etc. — Fiction. 3. Brothers and sisters — Fiction. 4. Castles — Fiction.] I. Title. II. Series: Nimmo, Jenny. Chronicles of the Red King ; bk. 3.
PZ7.N5897Leo 2013
813.54 — dc23
2012043508
First edition, November 2013
Cover art © 2013 by Owen Richardson
Cover design by Elizabeth B. Parisi
e-ISBN 978-0-545-57639-0
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