num_pages: 400
description: "You've stumbled on to something much larger than you can possibly imagine."In the dead of night, a cloaked figure drags a heavy box through snow-covered streets. The chest, covered in images of mythical beasts, can only be opened when the fangs of its serpent's-head clasp taste blood.Centuries later, in an Oxford library, a boy touches a strange book and feels something pierce his finger. The volume is blank, wordless, but its paper has fine veins running through it and seems to quiver, as if it's alive. Words begin to appear on the page--words no one but the boy can see.And so unfolds a timeless secret . . . .
language: English
title: Endymion Spring
titlecomplete: Endymion Spring
genres: Adventure, Historical, Fantasy, Mystery, Childrens, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Magic
ratings_count: 4582
places: Mainz, Oxford University, Oxford, England
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Manchester Book Award 
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Rhode Island Teen Book Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Ulmer Unke
publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers