num_pages: 328
description: Mysteries abound especially in Two Castles.A handsome cat trainer black-and-white cats thieves on four legs and two suspicious townsfolk a greedy king a giddy princess a shape-shifting ogre a brilliant dragon. Which is the villainous whited sepulcher?Elodie journeys to the town of Two Castles to become a mansioneran actressbut luck is against her. She is saved from starvation by the dragon Meenore who sends her on a dangerous mission inside the ogre's castle. There disguised as a kitchen maid at an ogre's feast she finds herself cast in the role of a lifetime and pitted against a foe intent on murder.Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine weaves an entrancing tale of a fearsome ogre a dragon detective and a remarkable heroine who finds friendship where she least expects it learns that there are many ways to mansion and discovers that goodness and evil come in all shapes and sizes.
language: English
title: A Tale of Two Castles
publisher: HarperTeen