Into the Land of the Unicorns

Title: Into the Land of the Unicorns

Author: Bruce Coville

Rating: ★★★★☆

Age Category: Middle Grade

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      Eight!...Nine!...Ten!

    As each bell chime sounds, Cara pushes herself faster up the steep bell tower steps that lead to the roof. Eleven! She must be on the roof when the next bell tolls. As she races up the stairs, Cara can't believe everything that has happened. Wasn't it just a few minutes ago that she and Grandmother Morris were peacefully walking home from the library? When did that mysterious man start to follow them? What does he want? Where did he come from? Who is he? Twelve! The ringing bell brings Cara back to the moment. Gramma told her what she must do! With a deep breath, and only half believing she will be safe, Cara jumps off the church roof and into the adventure of her lifetime - into the Land of Luster, the world of the unicorns.

    In Luster, Cara meets the Dimblethum, the Squijum, and the most magnificent of all the inhabitants, Lightfoot, a rebellious young unicorn. Together the new friends set out on a quest - to reach the Unicorn Queen and prevent the destruction of all unicorns. 

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"Music is enough for a whole lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music." - Sergei Rachmaninoff -

Sonnet 24 by William Shakespeare

Sonnet 24

by William Shakespeare

Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd

Thy beauty's form in table of my heart;

My body is the frame wherein 'tis held,

And perspective it is the painter's art.

For through the painter must you see his skill,

To find where your true image pictured lies;

Which in my bosom's shop is hanging still,

That hath his windows glazed with thine eyes.

Now see what good turns eyes for eyes have done:

Mine eyes have drawn thy shape, and thine for me

Are windows to my breast, where-through the sun

Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee;

Yet eyes this cunning want to grace their art;

They draw but what they see, know not the heart.

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"[Music] takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are and for what, whence, and whereto. All the great interrogatories like questioning Angels float in on its waves of sound." - Ralph Waldo Emerson -

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 "It is proportion that beautifies everything; this whole Universe consists of it, and Music is measured by it." - Orlando Gibbons -

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"Music is the art of the prophets; it is the only other art which, like theology, can calm the agitations of the soul, and put the devil to flight." - Martin Luther -

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 "He who sings well prays twice." - Attributed to St. Augustine of Hippo -