The remaining part of the novel follows Candy’s adventure as she explores the crises affecting the Abarat, she also gains intimations that she may probably be destined to conclude. While on the island, she learns that Abarat is made up of 25 islands and each occupies a different hour of the day and that it was initially connected to her world before Abaratian authorities destroyed the Harbour. Mischiefs give Candy a key to protect, extinguishes the light, both Mischief and Candy ride the parallel seas to Abarat.Ī group of mysterious transports them to a nearby island where Candy is separated from Mischief. She finds the cup and lights the lamp, and she is surprised to find out that it is covered in lines precisely as those she had doodled in her workbook. On the other hand, as the Shape gets out of mischief’s sight, Candy searches for a means to light up the lamp. When Candy makes it to the top, she finds a pyramid with a cup on top. Because he is hunted by an evil created, Mendelson Shape, he sends the young girl to light the lighthouse lamp- which calls an ocean by the name Sea of Izabella from a parallel universe.Ĭandy manages to climb up the old and rotten stairs while the Mischief and his brothers keep the Shape busy. Mischief’s seven brothers survive on these horns appearing as heads.

While at the lighthouse, she encounters a professional thief known as John Mischief who resembles a human except for the antlers on his head. She finds this incredibly fascinating because her hometown is thousands of miles from the ocean. After a heated argument with her school teacher over a school project and the scribbled absent-minded, she has done with her workbook.Ĭandy quits school and relocates to the edge of town where she discovers the remains of a lighthouse. The first book in Abarat series by Clive Barker focuses on Candy Quackenbush, a young girl frustrated with the situation in her life in Chickentown, Minnesota. Abarat also was featured in Publishers Weekly starred reviews and School Library Journal. Subsequently, in 2003, the novel won the second place in the Locus Poll for the best young adult novel. In 2002, Abarat the first book in the series was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for the best work for young adult readers. Abarat series is set in Abarat a fictional archipelago made up of twenty-five islands.Ĭlive Barker began the publication of Abarat series in 2002 when Abarat the first book in the series was published. Fantasy novels written by bestselling English author of science fiction, horror, and young adult and fantasy novels, Clive Barker.

Abarat by Clive Barker