The Merchant of Death (Pendragon)
The Merchant of Death (Pendragon) book cover

The Merchant of Death (Pendragon)

Paperback – May 31, 2005

Price
$6.96
Format
Paperback
Pages
384
Publisher
Aladdin
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1416905264
Dimensions
5 x 1 x 7.5 inches
Weight
8.8 ounces

Description

About the Author D. J. MacHale is a writer, director, and producer of several popular television series and movies that include Flight 29 Down ; Are You Afraid of the Dark? ; Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective; Tower of Terror ; and Ghostwriter . Pendragon, his first book series, is a #1 New York Times bestselling series. He lives in southern California with his wife, Evangeline; his daughter, Keaton; a golden retriever, Maggie; and a kitten, Kaboodle.

Features & Highlights

  • Bobby Pendragon is a seemingly normal fourteen-year-old boy. He has a family, a home, and even Marley, his beloved dog. But there is something very special about Bobby.
  • He is going to save the world.
  • And not just Earth as we know it. Bobby is slowly starting to realize that life in the cosmos isn't quite what he thought it was. And before he can object, he is swept off to an alternate dimension known as Denduron, a territory inhabited by strange beings, ruled by a magical tyrant, and plagued by dangerous revolution.
  • If Bobby wants to see his family again, he's going to have to accept his role as savior, and accept it wholeheartedly. Because, as he is about to discover, Denduron is only the beginning....

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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D.J. MacHale is a gunius!!!

THis book is a masterpiece! I'd been seeing it all over the place, ablut in november of 2005, so i decided to check it out of the library. And im glad i did! THis book kicks of a seiries that is both fantastic and wonderful! it not only has a great plot and wonderfull charactors, but also strange and beautiful settings! This book not only has wonderful and unique charactors, but also the charactors have feelings that all kids had, at least until you get to the saving the universe and all of Halla part... Anyway this book is a great read!
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The Launguage is a bust, but the plot is fantastic!!

Pendragon:The Merchant of Death; what an interesting title, right? Well, though the title might not be an absolute gripper, the story is one of the most exciting,fun, and all-around-greatest books kids and adults can really love.

The story starts out with Bobby Pendragon having love with a girl he's had a crush on since fourth-grade named Courtney Chetwnyed. At first, I am utterly grossed out by such a begining;once again, not a gripper. But for those that had the sense to go on, you would find that Bobby Pendragon, all-around nice guy, basketball star, would have to embrace his destiny as a Traveler, cosmic figures who save territories [worlds] from utter destruction from a maniac demon named Saint Dane, who wants to rule Halla[time,space, everything]. Now things get exciting! Bobby and his mysterious Uncle Press must now save Denduron, a territory near its turning point, the time where the territory can begin anew, or crumble into destruction. Bobby must save his Uncle Press from armor clad knights, defeat monsturous quigs, outsmart Saint Dane, befriend new allies to save this territory, and along the way he may find questions and answers to his future he will not like, icluding the question, "Why did everything that told of his existence disappear, including his house, and his family?"...

Awesome adventure!! Bobby has a great sense of humor, though the SLIGHT cursing and slang could have been done without another thought. But stil, this series is even better than Harry Potter, in as many ways as you can think!

Hobey ho, let's go to Denduron!
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WOW

i really really liked this book and I don't see how anyone could not like it. It is even better for the people who know who did it in the first ten minutes of CSI because it is almost impossible to get it right. I read the last 100 pages in a few hours because it was so exciting. If you are like me and don't connect with books easily, then this is the one for you.