num_pages: 311
description: Sent to a boarding school in Ancelstierre as a young child, Sabriel has had little experience with the random power of Free Magic or the Dead who refuse to stay dead in the Old Kingdom. But during her final semester, her father, the Abhorsen, goes missing, and Sabriel knows she must enter the Old Kingdom to find him. She soon finds companions in Mogget, a cat whose aloof manner barely conceals its malevolent spirit, and Touchstone, a young Charter Mage long imprisoned by magic, now free in body but still trapped by painful memories. As the three travel deep into the Old Kingdom, threats mount on all sides. And every step brings them closer to a battle that will pit them against the true forces of life and death -- and bring Sabriel face-to-face with her own hidden destiny. With Sabriel , the first installment in the Abhorsen trilogy, Garth Nix exploded onto the fantasy scene as a rising star, in a novel that takes readers to a world where the line between the living and the dead isn't always clear -- and sometimes disappears altogether.
language: English
title: Sabriel
titlecomplete: Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
characters: Kerrigor, Sabriel, Mogget, Rogir, Abhorsen, Touchstone
genres: Audiobook, High Fantasy, Young Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, Teen, Fantasy, Adventure, Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy
ratings_count: 204566
places: Old Kingdom, Ancelstierre
series: The Old Kingdom, Abhorsen
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Ditmar Award
category: Long Fiction, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Aurealis Award
category: Fantasy Novel and Young Adult Novel, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Lincoln Award
publisher: HarperColl