Ten-year-old Persimmony Smudge, who longs for heroic adventures, overhears a secret that thrusts her into the middle of a dangerous mission that could destroy the island on which she lives.
Originally published: New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2010 "By Professor Barnabas Quill, Historian of the Island at the Centre of Everything, washed, dusted, translated, edited and greatly shortened for the rest of the world by Jennifer Trafton." LSC 7.50
