Fly by Night

"Everyone knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad. . . ." Twelve-year-old Mosca Mye's love of words leads her-and her vicious pet goose-through an imaginary eighteenth-century England, where secret plots are hatched in floating coffeehouses, twin Queens wait in exile, and the Guild of Stationers controls all the printing presses-except for one. Notes about the Fractured Realm. Disclaimer.