The ElseWhere Chronicles: Book Five: The Parting
The eagerly awaited continuation of a story by the popular artist Bannister that has been popular with kids from middle readers through teens, this return to ElseWhere is full of action and spooky monsters, and reveals new secrets and new realms of the world beyond the mirror. This is the second part of the story arc to conclude in book six.
Max returns to ElseWhere to rescue his friends Noah, Theo, and Rebecca, whose quest to find a cure for Rebecca's mysterious illness has led them into a dangerous cave populated by creatures trapped between living and Shadow. Both Grandpa Gabe and llvanna offer help-but can llvanna's ghost hold onto human form for long enough to help them, or will she become fully a Shadow and creature of the Master? Can the kids discover Grandpa Gabe's real role in the fight for ElseWhere in time to save themselves and both worlds?
Creators
Nykko is the author of several graphic novel series, including The Elsewhere Chronicles (Les Enfants d'ailleurs), originally published in French by Dupuis, which won the 2007 Lyon Festival Youth Prize. Nykko lives in Perros-Guirec, France.
Bannister was born in 1973 and has been creating graphic novels since the age of 17. He is the illustrator of the popular Tib & Tumtum series and The ElseWhere Chronicles series. His work has also appeared in Flight Explorer (Villard Books/Random House) and several editions of the Flight anthology.
