The Silver Crown

Robert C. O'Brien

• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9780689841118
• eBook ISBN: 9781665911627

In this gripping and memorable middle grade fantasy from Newbery Medal–winning author Robert C. O'Brien, good and evil are locked in battle and the balance between the two can only be restored by one young girl's determination to set things right. "It lay beside her on the pillow, shinier than silver, glowing softly, with twinkling blue stones set all around....It did not occur to her to wonder from whom it had come; she was merely aware that it was hers by right." Ellen awakens one morning with a mysterious silver crown on the pillow beside her. What magic powers it possesses she has not yet discovered, but the sudden changes in her life are unmistakable: her house is burned down, her family has disappeared, and a man in a dark uniform is stalking her. Can Ellen ever find her family? Can she use the power of the silver crown to thwart the powers of darkness? What diabolical force hides inside the mysterious castle in the woods?

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Chapter One: The Birthday Present
• Chapter Two: “I Need Help”
• Chapter Three: The Green Mask
• Chapter Four: Letter to Aunt Sarah
• Chapter Five: The Shiny Blue Car
• Chapter Six: The Flight into the Forest
• Chapter Seven: Otto the Wrecker
• Chapter Eight: Richard
• Chapter Nine: A Cry in the Night
• Chapter Ten: The Flight up the Mountain
• Chapter Eleven: Otto the Knife
• Chapter Twelve: King and Mr. Carver
• Chapter Thirteen: A White Dove
• Chapter Fourteen: The Woodcarver’s Story
• Chapter Fifteen: The Stranger Returns
• Chapter Sixteen: The Broken Road
• Chapter Seventeen: Down the Crevasse
• Chapter Eighteen: The Cave
• Chapter Nineteen: Otto the Provider
• Chapter Twenty: The Dark Castle
• Chapter Twenty-One: Elementary Destruction
• Chapter Twenty-Two: The Dungeon
• Chapter Twenty-Three: The Screen
• Chapter Twenty-Four: A Way Out
• Chapter Twenty-Five: Phase 1
• Chapter Twenty-Six: The White-haired King
• Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Big Screen
• Chapter Twenty-Eight: Otto the Traitor
• Chapter Twenty-Nine: Jenny
• Chapter Thirty: Good Queen Ellen
• Chapter Thirty-One: Safe at Oakstable
• Chapter Thirty-Two: A Different Conclusion
• About the Author
• Copyright