Post by Metoria on Apr 5, 2007 15:33:04 GMT -5
Inkheart By: Cornelia Funke
Hardcover
Paperback
The Book Starts out with Meggie and her father Mo living together. They are bookworms and are obsessed with them pretty much. Mo is a "Book Doctor". Well one night a man Appears at their house in the middle of the night. His name is Dustfinger. He is an old friend of Mo's, in a way. Dustfinger, Meggie and Mo leave the next morning to Elinor's House. Elinor is Meggie's great Aunt. She is a book collector. Mo asks her to hide a book for him. Dustfinger puts on a show for Meggie. He is a Fire-Eater, a Fire Dancer, A Fire Tamer, which ever name you prefer. While he puts on the show Capricorn's Men come, kidnapp Mo and take the book he was hinding called Inkheart.
Dustfinger later takes Elinor and Meggie to Capricorn's Village to get Mo back by bribing the evil man with the REAL book, Elinor took from it's hiding place. They too are captured with the exception of Dustfinger who was working for Capricorn all along so that he could get a copy of the book, Inkheart. However Capricorn burns them all and breaks his end of the deal.
Meggie learns her father can read things and people out of books. Mo is forced to read treasure out of books, He reads a boy out instead, his name is Farid.
They are imprisoned and Dustfinger sets them free. They get to a town where they split up and Elinor goes home to her books. Mo,Meggie and Dustfinger go to see the writer of the book Inkheart, Fenoglio. Dustfinger runs off to get the last book of Inkheart from Capricorn, who lied to him and hid one book away for himself so Mo may read his "Friend" out.
Mo get a call from Elinor saying her books were burned. Mo goes to get her, Meggie and Fenoglio are captured by Basta, one of Capricorn's men, and taken back to his village.
Meggie learns she too can read things out of books. Capricorn finds out and she is forced to read his "friend" out of the book at the execution ceremony of Dustfinger and Resa, a mute maid, and Meggie's Mother. The friend turns out to be a creature called the Shadow.
Basta end up getting the exicution as well do to his many failures.
Meggie and Fenoglio make a plan to save them. Elinor get captured and will be exicuted, Mo and Farid try to find a way to save them by burning Capricorn's house.
Meggie reads from a paper that Fenoglio wrote to save the prisoners. He changed the story so it would work for their purpose.
The Shadow appears, kills Capricorn and his men leaving only one maid and Basta alive.
Mo and Resa are reunited, Meggie and Elinor are free, Dustfinger steals the book from Mo and Farid follows him as he leaves.
Mo, Resa, and Meggie, decide to live at Elinor's house and Meggie decides she wants to become a writer like Fenoglio who disappeared into the book of Inkheart.
Hardcover
Paperback
The Book Starts out with Meggie and her father Mo living together. They are bookworms and are obsessed with them pretty much. Mo is a "Book Doctor". Well one night a man Appears at their house in the middle of the night. His name is Dustfinger. He is an old friend of Mo's, in a way. Dustfinger, Meggie and Mo leave the next morning to Elinor's House. Elinor is Meggie's great Aunt. She is a book collector. Mo asks her to hide a book for him. Dustfinger puts on a show for Meggie. He is a Fire-Eater, a Fire Dancer, A Fire Tamer, which ever name you prefer. While he puts on the show Capricorn's Men come, kidnapp Mo and take the book he was hinding called Inkheart.
Dustfinger later takes Elinor and Meggie to Capricorn's Village to get Mo back by bribing the evil man with the REAL book, Elinor took from it's hiding place. They too are captured with the exception of Dustfinger who was working for Capricorn all along so that he could get a copy of the book, Inkheart. However Capricorn burns them all and breaks his end of the deal.
Meggie learns her father can read things and people out of books. Mo is forced to read treasure out of books, He reads a boy out instead, his name is Farid.
They are imprisoned and Dustfinger sets them free. They get to a town where they split up and Elinor goes home to her books. Mo,Meggie and Dustfinger go to see the writer of the book Inkheart, Fenoglio. Dustfinger runs off to get the last book of Inkheart from Capricorn, who lied to him and hid one book away for himself so Mo may read his "Friend" out.
Mo get a call from Elinor saying her books were burned. Mo goes to get her, Meggie and Fenoglio are captured by Basta, one of Capricorn's men, and taken back to his village.
Meggie learns she too can read things out of books. Capricorn finds out and she is forced to read his "friend" out of the book at the execution ceremony of Dustfinger and Resa, a mute maid, and Meggie's Mother. The friend turns out to be a creature called the Shadow.
Basta end up getting the exicution as well do to his many failures.
Meggie and Fenoglio make a plan to save them. Elinor get captured and will be exicuted, Mo and Farid try to find a way to save them by burning Capricorn's house.
Meggie reads from a paper that Fenoglio wrote to save the prisoners. He changed the story so it would work for their purpose.
The Shadow appears, kills Capricorn and his men leaving only one maid and Basta alive.
Mo and Resa are reunited, Meggie and Elinor are free, Dustfinger steals the book from Mo and Farid follows him as he leaves.
Mo, Resa, and Meggie, decide to live at Elinor's house and Meggie decides she wants to become a writer like Fenoglio who disappeared into the book of Inkheart.