Chauncey – no one knows WHAT Chauncey is, but he is a green amorphous blob with eyes on stalks on top of his head and he longs to be a bellhop when he grows up.Sal – an extremely shy teenage boy who shifts into a Pomeranian when frightened.Phee – a young forest sprite, distant, standoffish, has the power to make plants grow.Theodore – a wyvern who speaks in chirps, has a secret hoard of treasure (and buttons) under the couch.

Talia – a two-hundred-something year old female garden gnome (which is apparently unheard of).He also falls in love (an ever growing attraction between him and Arthur Parnassus spans the length of the book) and discovers unsuspected depths of courage, loyalty, and tenacity in himself. As time passes and he investigates further, he starts, for the first time, to question some of the things Extremely Upper Management has been telling him about these kids. Linus soon learns there’s quite a bit he hasn’t been told. Linus faints dead away on reading the first file, belonging to Lucy (short for Lucifer), the 6-year-old reputed to be the child of Satan. (See Character List Below) In practice, it’s more like assessing how dangerous they are, and taking a hard look at the methods of Arthur Parnassus, the headmaster. His task is to look into the well-being of the orphanage’s six young residents. Marsyas Island Orphanage is located on Marsyas Island off the coast of a little seaside resort town.

Brief Summaryįorty-year-old Linus Baker, career bureaucrat in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth, is a gray, shriveled, downtrodden soul when his latest assignment from Extremely Upper Management sends him to The House in the Cerulean Sea, aka Marsyas Island Orphanage. Learn more about the making of the cover from Red Nose Studio here. I especially LOVE the cover! It is so whimsical and the colors make me feel as though I am surrounded by the ocean. It is sweet and endearing, laugh out loud funny, and encourages you to open your mind and examine the prejudices that surround us. Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Harry Potter, The Hobbit, and Hotel Transylvania. The best way I can describe this book is a mash up of Miss. The book is so wonderful and laugh out loud funny and could easily be loved by teens (and is loved by teens)! Klune’s work in The House in the Cerulean Sea has been praised for its warmth and messages of love and acceptance.

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