Full name: The Goblin's Puzzle: Being the Adventures of a Boy with No Name and Two Girls Called Alice

Author: Andrew Chilton Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Children, Fantasy, Adventure, Humor, Mystery, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780553520705 0553520709

Brimming with dragons, goblins, and logic puzzles, this middle-grade fantasy adventure is perfect for readers who enjoyed The Princess Bride or Rump. THE BOY is a nameless slave on a mission to uncover his true destiny. THE GOBLIN holds all the answers, but he's too tricky to be trusted. PLAIN ALICE is a bookish peasant girl carried off by a confused dragon. And PRINCESS ALICE is the lucky girl who wasn't kidnapped. All four are tangled up in a sinister plot to take over the kingdom, and together they must face kind monsters, a cruel magician, and dozens of deathly boring palace bureaucrats. They're a ragtag bunch, but with strength, courage, and plenty of deductive reasoning, they just might outwit the villains and crack the goblin's puzzle. Similar books: Iron Hearted Violet by Kelly Barnhill Malamander by Thomas Taylor Wed Wabbit by Lissa Evans Fake Mustache by Tom Angleberger The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams Magic Marks the Spot by Caroline Carlson King Arthur's Very Great Grandson by Kenneth Kraegel The Island of Dr. Libris by Chris Grabenstein Sasquatch by Roland Smith The Riverman by Aaron Starmer The Wig in the Window by Kristen Kittscher The Water Castle by Megan Frazer Blakemore Fortunately, the Milk by Neil Gaiman Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy by Karen Foxlee Now You See Them, Now You Don't by Gordon Korman Story Thieves by James Riley A Tangle of Knots by Lisa Graff Of Giants and Ice by Shelby Bach The Storm Keeper's Island by Catherine Doyle