num_pages: 534
description: 12 year-old Meggie lives with her father, Mortimer, a bookbinder. Mo never reads stories aloud to Meggie because he has a special gift: when he reads a book aloud, the characters come out of the book and into the real world. One night, when Meggie was a small child, Mortimer was reading aloud from a book named Inkheart when an evil villain named Capricorn, his aide Basta, and a fire-eater named Dustfinger escape from the book and into their living room. At the same time, Mo's wife Resa gets trapped within the book.Twelve years later, Capricorn is on a hunt to find and destroy all copies of Inkheart and use Mo's abilities to gain more power for himself in the real world. Meggie discovers her father's secret and, along with the help of Dustfinger and Meggie's eccentric aunt Elinor, fights to free her father and destroy Capricorn.
language: English
title: Inkheart
titlecomplete: Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)
characters: Mortimer Folchart, Meggie Folchart, Resa Folchart, Elinor Loredan, Farid, Staubfinger, Capricorn
genres: Middle Grade, Audiobook, Childrens, Young Adult, Magic, Fantasy, Adventure, Fiction, Books About Books, Young Adult Fantasy
ratings_count: 414931
places: Italy
series: Inkworld
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Young Adult Book, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Mythopoeic Fantasy Award
category: Children's Literature, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Zilveren Griffel, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire
category: Roman jeunesse, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Nene Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Flicker Tale Children's Book Award, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
category: Preis der Jugendjury, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Phantastik-Preis der Stadt Wetzlar, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Literaturpreis der Jury der jungen Leser
category: Kinderbuch
publisher: Scholastic Chicken House