num_pages: 500
description: A city has many lives and layers. London has more than most. Not all the layers are underground, and not all the lives belong to the living.Twelve-year-old George Chapman is about to find this out the hard way. When, in a tiny act of rebellion, George breaks the head from a stone dragon outside the Natural History Museum, he awakes an ancient power. This power has been dormant for centuries but the results are instant and A stone Pterodactyl unpeels from the wall and starts chasing George. He runs for his life but it seems that no one can see what he’s running from. No one, except Edie, who is also trapped in this strange world.And this is just the beginning as the statues of London awake…This is a story of statues coming to life; of a struggle between those with souls and those without; of how one boy who has been emotionally abandoned manages to find hope.
language: English
title: Stoneheart
titlecomplete: Stoneheart (Stoneheart Trilogy, #1)
genres: Fiction, Magic, Adventure, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Childrens, Fantasy, Dragons, Urban Fantasy, Audiobook
ratings_count: 7872
places: United Kingdom
series: Stoneheart Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Carnegie Medal
publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers