She had never screamed before, not when she overturned the rowboat and almost drowned, not even when Lightfoot bucked her off and she felt her leg break underneath her with an agonizing crunch. But now she screamed long and loud, with all her breath.Hallow Hill has a strange and tragic history. For thousands of years, young women have been vanishing from the estate, never to be seen again. Now Kate and Emily have come to live at Hallow Hill. Brought up in a civilized age, they have no idea of the land's dreadful heritage-until, that is, Marak decides to tell them himself.Intelligent, pleasant, and completely pitiless, Marak is a powerful magician who claims to be a king-and he has very specific plans for the two new girls who have trespassed into his kingdom.?The Hollow Kingdom is a 2004 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

 

This book was recognised in the YA category by the South Carolina Childrens Junior and Young Adult Book Award.

This is book 1 in Hollow Kingdom Trilogy .

This book has been graded for interest at 11-14 years.

There are 240 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Henry Holt & Company .

Clare B. Dunkle worked for years as a librarian. She lives with her family in Germany. Her first book, "The Hollow Kingdom," won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award and was named a "Publishers Weekly" "Flying Start," a Bank Street College of Education Best Book, and a Locus Magazine Best YA Book.