
He tells her she's lucky he didn't do the same to her, and leaves the bookshop with his Golems, who cart Perry away, too."Readers will actively root for the good guys in this exhilarating fantasy-if they can figure out who they are." - Booklist. Dee makes the broom in Sophie's hand shatter.But Dee grabs it again, despite Sophie's attempt to whack the man away from her brother with a broom.Josh sees Dee snatch the book, so he knocks him down.This book is just chock full of stinky stenches.Dee hurls a tiny crystal ball onto the floor, which creates a blindingly bright explosion that smells like burning hair and fumes of diesel.They arrive at the bookshop just in time to watch a Golem touch Perry and explode.Nick grabs a small square of cloth hanging around his neck and takes out a small book bound in copper-colored metal.In the meantime, we learn that Nick Fleming and Josh saw Perry and Sophie rush into the bookshop just as they were opening the door of the dry cleaners.As Perry tells him that "we" are the guardians of the book, a silver mist surrounds her, much to Sophie's shock.Dee tells her that he has come for "the Book." Dude, it's a bookshop: could you be a little more specific?.The gray man greets Perry by calling her Perenelle, and she responds by calling him Dee. It's total pandemonium in the bookshop.Perry runs to the bookshop, and having remembered that her brother Josh is in there, Sophie follows suit.A bewildered Sophie merely watches as the man dries up in the street.Perry refers to the melting man as a Golem, or Man of Clay.The two see the bookshop door crash open and one of the men in overcoats is thrown out to the street.A worried-looking Perry says: "oh no… not now… not here.".


They turned 15 last December and started saving money to buy their own car.
