With the magic of the Outskirts starting to unravel, it’s up to Cole and an unusual girl named Mira to rescue his friends, set things right in the Outskirts, and hopefully find his way back home…before his existence is forgotten. Some find their way there from our world, or from other worlds.Īnd once you come to the Outskirts, it’s very hard to leave. Cole is forced to become a Sky Raiders scout, risking his life to find. Adventure awaits in the Five Kingdomscome and claim it in this start to a new series from the 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Fablehaven and Beyonders series. Once he arrives in the Outskirts, Cole is quickly taken away to Skyport, home of the Sky Raiders. The Outskirts are made up of five kingdoms that lie between wakefulness and dreaming, reality and imagination, life and death. About the Book: When slave traders from another world kidnap sixth grader Cole's best friends, he follows them to The Outskirts, a realm beyond our own made up of five kingdoms.

But when a spooky haunted house turns out to be a portal to something much creepier, Cole finds himself on an adventure on a whole different level.Īfter Cole sees his friends whisked away to some mysterious place underneath the haunted house, he dives in after them-and ends up in The Outskirts.

Come and claim it in this first book of the Five Kingdoms series, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Fablehaven and Beyonders series.Ĭole Randolph was just trying to have a fun time with his friends on Halloween (and maybe get to know Jenna Hunt a little better). In a world that lies between reality and imagination, a “fanciful, action-packed adventure” awaits ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).

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