Corbenic

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. References to real people, events, establishments, organizations, or locales are intended only to provide a sense of authenticity, and are used to advance the fictional narrative. All other characters, and all incidents and dialogue, are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real.

Corbenic

Copyright © 2002 by Catherine Fisher

First published in 2002 in Great Britain by Red Fox Books,

an imprint of Random House Children’s Books.

First published in 2006 in the United States by Greenwillow Books.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Fisher, Catherine

Corbenic / by Catherine Fisher.

p. cm.

“Greenwillow Books.”

Summary: In this modern-day version of Perceval and the Holy Grail, a guilt-ridden British teenager leaves his mentally ill mother to live with his wealthy uncle and begins a journey of self-knowledge and redemption after being briefly transported to the Waste Land of Arthurian times.

ISBN-10: 0-06-072470-6 (trade bdg.) ISBN-13: 978-0-06-072470-2

ISBN-10: 0-06-072471-4 (lib. bdg.) ISBN-13: 978-0-06-072471-9

[1. Mothers and sons—Fiction. 2. Grail—Fiction. 3. Identity—Fiction.

4. Space and time—Fiction. 5. Coming of age—Fiction. 6. England—Fiction.]

PZ7.F4995Co 2006 [Fic]—dc22 2003056866

First American Edition 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Epub Edition © JANUARY 2012 ISBN: 9780062193759