In the street below her orphanage window, thirteen-year-old Ariel sees an old man move in to a broken-down cottage. At first she has no idea that he will help her walk through a portal to a new world, Walhalla - a place where she truly belongs. Reynaldo, the old man, takes her to villages where the people are generous and happy, but also to towns of people starving and afraid. This is the legacy of the evil Largo, Walhalla's overlord, who rules by fear and favour. Ariel must find a way to defeat Largo to bring happiness back to the land.
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Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
Paperback. Condition: Good. The title Ariel's Charm refers to a charm called the Palladox Charm, that allows eleven-year-old Ariel to travel between the worlds of Walhalla and Earth. Ariel's parents were both killed in a car crash in Earth world when she was a baby, leaving Ariel an orphan inside a grim, cruel, cold orphanage. At age eleven, this lonely existence was all she had known. But all her young life, something told Ariel that a shift would happen that would change her very unhappy life. One day in the street below her orphanage window, Ariel saw an old man move into a broken-down cottage and she had no idea that he would be the one that would help her travel through a virtual membrane to a new world called Walhalla--a place where she truly belonged. Ariel leaves behind a grim, cold existence, and goes to a place of endless possibilities, not the least of which is to find out who she is and what happened to her family. 192 pages. Seller Inventory # 1588984
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