The Golden Door (24 page)

Emily Rodda is the author of the
New York Times
bestselling Deltora Quest series and has more than eight million copies of her books in print. Winner of the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Book of the Year Award (Younger Readers) a record five times, Emily lives in Sydney, Australia.

Text and graphics copyright © 2011 by Emily Rodda

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rodda, Emily.
The golden door / Emily Rodda. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Originally published: Parkside, S. Aust.: Omnibus Books, c2011.
Summary: At night the skimmers fly over the Wall looking for human prey and the people of Weld huddle in their houses, but after his two brothers set out through the magic doors in an attempt to find the Enemy and don’t come back, young Rye knows that he must follow and find them.

ISBN: 978-0-545-42990-0

1. Brothers — Juvenile fiction. 2. Monsters — Juvenile fiction. 3. Magic — Juvenile fiction. 4. Adventure stories. [1. Brothers — Fiction. 2. Monsters — Fiction. 3. Magic — Fiction. 4. Adventure and adventurers — Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.R5996Gol 2012
823.914 — dc23
2012014947

First American edition, October 2012

Cover art © 2011 by Marc McBride
Cover design by Elizabeth B. Parisi

e-ISBN: 978-0-545-46993-7

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