The Keep of Ages

  Another flash of lightning brightens the window, and I hold my breath for the thunder.

  ALSO BY CARAGH M. O’BRIEN

  The Vault of Dreamers Trilogy

  The Vault of Dreamers

  The Rule of Mirrors

  The Birthmarked Trilogy

  Birthmarked

  Prized

  Promised

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Caragh M. O’Brien is the author of the BIRTHMARKED trilogy and THE VAULT OF DREAMERS trilogy. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Ms. O’Brien was educated at Williams College and earned her MA in the Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University. Her young adult science fiction has been honored by the YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, the Amelia Bloomer Award, the Junior Library Guild, and numerous state reading lists. A former high school English teacher, she now writes young adult novels full time from her home in rural Connecticut. You can sign up for email updates here.

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  CONTENTS

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Dedication

  Map

    1. The Boxcars of Home

    2. A Good Daughter

    3. A Trade of Dreams

    4. Waffles67

    5. Lemon Smoke

    6. Linus: Half Blind

    7. Tabby in the Window

    8. The Park in the Closet

    9. The Dragon of Grisly Valley

  10. The Whistler

  11. The Star of Dreamers

  12. A Convenient Port

  13. Invaded

  14. Light from a Potato

  15. Captive

  16. The Fish of the Deep

  17. Double Scrutiny

  18. STAY OUT

  19. Arself

  20. Phantom Audience

  21. Candlelight

  22. Negative Space

  23. On the Porch above the Cliff

  24. Seven Red Possibilities

  25. The Keep of Ages

  26. The Golden Line

  27. Fear

  28. The Vault of Dreamers

  29. Lost and Found

  30. Not Dad

  31. The Nanobots

  32. Beginning

  About the Author

  Also by Caragh M. O’Brien

  Copyright

  Copyright © 2017 by Caragh M. O’Brien

  Published by Roaring Brook Press

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  Library of Congress Control Number: 2016953573

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  eISBN 9781596439436

  First hardcover edition, 2017

  eBook edition, August 2017