num_pages: 279
description: Brimming with dragons, goblins, and logic puzzles, this middle-grade fantasy adventure is perfect for readers who enjoyed The Princess Bride or Rump.THE BOY is a nameless slave on a mission to uncover his true destiny.THE GOBLIN holds all the answers, but he’s too tricky to be trusted.PLAIN ALICE is a bookish peasant girl carried off by a confused dragon.And PRINCESS ALICE is the lucky girl who wasn’t kidnapped. All four are tangled up in a sinister plot to take over the kingdom, and together they must face kind monsters, a cruel magician, and dozens of deathly boring palace bureaucrats. They’re a ragtag bunch, but with strength, courage, and plenty of deductive reasoning, they just might outwit the villains and crack the goblin’s puzzle.
language: English
title: The Goblin's Puzzle: The Adventures of a Boy With No Name and Two Girls Called Alice
publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers