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|title=Abarat

|author=Clive Barker

|date=August 2004

|isbn=0006513700

|website=http://www.clivebarker.info/

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Candy Quackenbush has one great fear; that she will never leave her home of Chickentown, Minnesota. It is only when asked by her loathsome teacher to do a project on her dull town that she finds there is more to the place than meets the eye. Following the suicide of the town's original namesake Henry Murkitt, Candy is drawn into a world known as "Abarat", a world filled with wondrous sites and horrific visions. Her first encounter with a genial eight-headed creature known as John Mischief leads her on a adventure in which she is to become an unlikely heroine. Endlessly pursued by agents of evil who wish to unleash the "Requaix" hidden below the sea, how can this fourteen-year old hold the fate of the world in her hands?