![]() ![]() ![]() The author slowly reveals how Warvold's internallized fears prompted him to build the wall, with all sorts of unforeseen ramifications. ![]() From them she learns that Warvold had selected her as "the chosen one," to complete a task he left unfinshed. Once outside, a two-foot-high man greets her and leads her on a quest through a seemingly enchanted land with talking animals. ![]() While the adults grapple with the population problem within this confined space, Alexa follows her passion-to find "a way outside the wall"-and escapes, thanks to Warvold's key. As the story opens, readers learn through a flashback that Alexa was taking a walk with Warvold, the kingdom's architect, when he inexplicably died she takes a key from the locket he wears, and returns home. Alexa Daley, 12 years old, lives within the walled kingdom of Elyon with her father, the mayor of Lathbury, and his influential friends. In his debut fantasy, the launch of the Land of Elyon series, Carman crafts an intriguingly insular world, and introduces a plucky, convincingly curious heroine who yearns to see what lies outside of it. ![]()
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