Troubletwisters (Troubletwisters, Book 1)
Garth Nix, Sean Williams
Language: English
Pages: 161
ISBN: 1405258578
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Are you a troubletwister?
Jaide and Jack Shield's lives are changing in a very, very strange way. The weather is turning against them. Magical disasters occur when they're around. And a mysterious explosion has just destroyed their house...from the inside.
Without knowing why, the twins are stolen away to live with Grandma X--a relative they've never, ever met. At Grandma X's house, things are even stranger. Weather vanes point in the opposite direction of the wind. Doors appear and disappear. Cats talk.
Jaide and Jack don't know the reason behind all this strangeness. They don't know that they're troubletwisters, and that they must defend the world against a dark, evil force. The time has come for them to discover the truth--and the powers that come with the truth.
Are they ready?
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who lived with their aunt in an apartment on the other side of town. “Let me see that.” Both Jack and Jaide jumped as their mother reached past them and snatched the card from Jaide’s fingers. Neither twin had heard her coming. After reading the message, Susan Shield’s lips tightened and she shut her eyes for a moment. The twins watched her, puzzled by her reaction. “This isn’t really for you,” she said finally. “I want you to forget you ever saw it.” “But it was addressed to us,” Jaide
looping back to the hands that had cast it. Through their shock, the twins recognized their father, but he looked like nothing they had ever seen before. Light rippled up and down his body like a gas flame, concentrating in his open hands. His hair waved like a nest of electric snakes. Hector Shield grabbed the lightning as if it were a rope and hauled on it as hard as he could, pulling the twins to him. They reeled into his arms, and he took the iron rod from their frozen hands without
meant to be opened before their time.’” “It’s definitely time now. But how do we lift a latch on the other side?” They stared at the door with identical expressions. This was a challenge, and they were determined to be up to it. “It’s a secret room for Wardens, right?” said Jack. “I guess.” Jaide could see the way he was thinking. “So you need a Gift to open it?” “Grandma X probably does it with her spirit or whatever it was she sent to me in the tunnels. She just goes in there and lifts the
might come close,” said Kleo. Her eyes glittered in the candlelight. “I’m sorry, Grandma,” Jaide said quietly. “Sorry we didn’t trust you, and sorry if … if we brought all this trouble on you … on everyone.” Jack turned back from the window and knelt down next to Jaide. He put his hand over Jaide’s in what he hoped was a confident, comforting grip. He didn’t voice the resentment he felt for being in their position. He had never asked to be a troubletwister, and he certainly didn’t like the
ground nearby. The bulldozer was silent. “This solves all our problems, doesn’t it? We keep this playing and The Evil can’t get in.” “Things like this can only be wound once,” said Kleo. “And it won’t play for long. It’s old. Springs can break or cogs jam. It could end at any moment.” As if it heard Kleo’s words, the music faltered for a second. The twins’ hearts almost stopped in that moment of silence, as the rats and insects rustled forward, just a fraction of an inch. Then the music
