{"id":40452,"date":"2016-03-04T10:07:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T15:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=40452"},"modified":"2016-03-04T09:02:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T14:02:48","slug":"amulet-book-seven-firelight-by-kazu-kibuishi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/amulet-book-seven-firelight-by-kazu-kibuishi\/","title":{"rendered":"Amulet | Book Seven: Firelight by Kazu Kibuishi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-40434 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/02\/Amulet-7-by-Kazu-Kibuishi-on-BookDragon-533x800.jpg\" alt=\"Amulet 7 by Kazu Kibuishi on BookDragon\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/02\/Amulet-7-by-Kazu-Kibuishi-on-BookDragon-533x800.jpg 533w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/02\/Amulet-7-by-Kazu-Kibuishi-on-BookDragon.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/>Whoa! The year-and-a-half wait for this, the latest volume in <a href=\"http:\/\/boltcity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kazu Kibuishi<\/a>\u2019s bestselling <em>Amulet<\/em> adventures,\u00a0is finally over!! And was it worth the 18 months of excruciating patience?<\/p>\n<p>You betcha!<\/p>\n<p>So listen up: first and foremost, if this is the first\u00a0<em> Amulet<\/em> cover you&#8217;re seeing, stop here and go catch up with the <a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/series-amulet\/\" target=\"_blank\">previous six<\/a>. I promise: You don&#8217;t want to deprive yourself of the utterly gleeful discovery of this exceptional,\u00a0inventive, lively, adventurous series.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re totally up to date and looking for a tiny sneak peek into lucky number Seven, here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ll divulge\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Mysteriously missing fathers loom large here: somewhere far away, Emily is spending a lot of time bonding with her Dad\u00a0(never mind that he&#8217;s been dead for a few years); and in some dark part of his past,\u00a0Trellis will need to figure out what happened with his estranged, ruthlessly dangerous Elf King progenitor.\u00a0Any paternally-illuminating insights\u00a0will require both children\u00a0to trust a deceptive\u00a0bounty hunter to take them where they shouldn&#8217;t go.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in another world away, Navin and crew are cooking up their own means of escaping some of the less-than-friendly locals as they devise and revise ever-changing plans to get to Frontera as soon as possible. What they find once they arrive is a whole other story &#8230; to be continued, of course (and arghhhhh!) in Book Eight, I&#8217;d wager &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For now, the Voice just gets stronger. Who&#8217;s listening, who&#8217;s resisting? Ah, well &#8230; the ever-imaginative, always-intriguing\u00a0Kibuishi will make sure we\u00a0read on &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoa! The year-and-a-half wait for this, the latest volume in Kazu Kibuishi\u2019s bestselling Amulet adventures,\u00a0is finally over!! And was it worth the 18 months of excruciating patience? You betcha! So listen up: first and foremost, if this is the first\u00a0 Amulet cover you&#8217;re seeing, stop&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,73,426,30,60],"tags":[32,84,6608,10,189,6873,11,1661,39,42,1663,44,35],"class_list":["post-40452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","category-graphic-novel-manga-manwha","category-japanese-american","category-middle-grade-readers","category-nonethnic-specific","tag-adventure","tag-betrayal","tag-bookdragon","tag-family","tag-father-son-relationship","tag-firelight","tag-friendship","tag-kazu-kibuishi","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-series","tag-series-amulet","tag-siblings","tag-speculative-fantasy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Amulet | Book Seven: Firelight by Kazu Kibuishi - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/amulet-book-seven-firelight-by-kazu-kibuishi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Amulet | Book Seven: Firelight by Kazu Kibuishi - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Whoa! 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