About the book: 2004 / Here the ordinary is intertwined with the unprecedented. Here words take on flesh, here time has its own laws, here in the depths of the waters ominous monsters wait in the wings, here strange creatures live on equal terms with people. Here the waters of the Isabella Sea wash twenty-five islands, none of which are like the other. There are so many miracles here that even the locals don’t know the answers to all the riddles. This is Abarat. The second part of the planned tetralogy, a continuation of the adventures of Candy Quackenbush, Christopher Tlen and the rest of the characters of the first book. Awards - Bram Stoker Awards, 2005 in the category "Teenage Novel"".