Kendra Kandlestar and the Door to Unger Read Online Free PDF

a chance you’ll have to take. For many years, the disappearance of your family has been a mystery. Finally, a crack of light is showing through a door that has otherwise been closed. Follow that light, old friend, follow it.”
    Uncle Griffinskitch stroked his long beard, deep in thought. “Humph,” he muttered after a moment. “On your advice, we shall go in search of this door. May the ancients help us in such a quest!”
    They bid the old woman farewell, and made their way down the stairways of the Elder Stone. Kendra’s mind was racing. Everything was happening so quickly. Elder Woodsong was gravely ill, Burdock Brown had made himself leader of the council, and somehow they had to find a mysterious door in a fabled wasteland, which could be anywhere in the outside world. On top of that, they had only a few weeks in which to do it.
    Things couldn’t get much more complicated, Kendra thought to herself.
    But, as she was to soon find out, she couldn’t have been more wrong.



YOU HAVE PROBABLY BEEN TOLD that it’s rude to stare. If that’s true, then the town of Faun’s End was a very rude place as Kendra and her uncle crossed the bridge from the Elder Stone and entered the busy town square. Everyone seemed to suddenly stop and look at them.
    “Humph,” Uncle Griffinskitch grunted. “What’s going on here?”
    “Oh, you won’t like this!” said Gilburt Green, the town baker.
    “Eh? What’s that?” the old wizard asked.
    Gilburt turned and pointed to a large board that had been nailed to a signpost in the center of the town square. Kendra and her uncle quickly pushed their way through the crowd and looked upon the sign. It had been freshly painted, and read:

    By order of the Council of Een Elders
     
    The magic curtain has been sealed
    by magic enchantment
    FOREVER.
    This measure has been taken
    to protect the Land of Een
    from the outside world.
    Anyone who attempts to break the magic of the seal,
    or tries to leave the Land of Een, will be considered a traitor
    and will be imprisoned immediately.
    Signed, Burdock Brown
     

    “Oh no!” Kendra gasped. “We’ll never find my family now! We’ll never find the Door to—,”
    “Hush now, Kendra,” Uncle Griffinskitch said quickly, ushering her away from the crowd that was gathered around the sign. “Everywhere there are ears. We must be careful with our words. We can trust a precious few now.”
    “Everything has changed,” Kendra whispered to her uncle as they headed back to their home. “Almost overnight.”
    “Humph,” Uncle Griffinskitch grunted in agreement. “A tree will rot for fifty years—and then suddenly it falls.”

     
    Later that night, as the white moon gazed down upon the tiny land of Een, a secret meeting took place in the yew tree house where Kendra and her uncle lived. Six in all crowded around the candlelit table in the small kitchen. Joining Uncle Griffinskitch and Kendra were four important friends. The first of these, of course, was Honest Oki the mouse, who was Kendra’s closest companion. Next was Juniper Jinx, the fiery grasshopper who just that morning had been fired from her job as the Captain of the Een guard. Jinx was the smallest creature at the table, but she was also the strongest, for as a young child she had accidentally swallowed a potion that had given her super strength. Next at the table was Professor Bumblebean, a tall and well-mannered Een who was the head of the famous Een Library in Faun’s End. Professor Bumblebean was quite bookish in appearance, for he had a small pair of glasses perched precariously on the end of his large nose and he had a stubby pencil tucked behind his ear. Last, was Ratchet Ringtail, the outspoken raccoon who fancied himself an amateur wizard and extraordinary inventor. He was also known as somewhat of a troublemaker, but he was a close and loyal friend to Kendra.
     

    Despite their differences in appearance and personality, everyone at the table had one thing in common: