Hatter Madigan: Ghost in the Hatbox: Ghost in the Hatbox

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Age range 9 to 12

Swordplay! Arsenal cubes and blade chasers! School bullies! Selfserving rivals! Scheming adults and soulless rebel plotters! Welcome to the world of cadet Hatter Madigan, who has just entered Wonderland's Millinery Academy, where those born to protect the queendom train to become spies, assassins, and bodyguards. The coed world of a freshman Cap is extremely competitive, and as hard as Hatter's mystic and martial studies prove to be, they are little compared to the more difficult art of successfully dealing with others vying to be the best.

As readers of The Looking Glass Wars already know, Hatter will grow up to one day serve as bodyguard to two queens and become Wonderland's most famous traveler. But in the Hatter Madigan serieseach installment of which chronicles a single year of our hero's educationreaders live through the experiences that shaped this extraordinary character. Come and share Hatter's pride as he excels in combat trials and imagination workshops; empathize as he struggles with the first stirrings of love and the expectations of teachers familiar with his famous older brother; feel his excitement when he and his new friends discover that ghosts, somehow connected to the Millinery's HATBOX (Holographic and Transmutative Base of Xtremecombat), have the ability to possess the bodies of the livinga haunting that threatens all of Wonderland.

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Literary Sleuth and world creator Frank Beddor dared to expose the true story of Wonderland in the "New York Times" bestselling young adult trilogy "The Looking Glass Wars." To satisfy the awakened curiosity of his readers he continued to tell the parallel adventures of Royal Bodyguard Hatter Madigan s search for the lost princess in the graphic novel series "Hatter M." He lives in Los Angeles.

Adrienne Kress is a Toronto-born actor and author of the internationally published and award winning children s novels "Alex and the Ironic Gentleman" and "Timothy and the Dragon s Gate," as well as the young adult novels, "The Friday Society" and "Outcast." In late 2015 her essay appeared in the non-fiction anthology "The Secret Loves of Geek Girls" and in the fall of 2016 she will be releasing the first book in an upcoming middle grade series, "The Explorers Club."
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