{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Candy Quackenbush, a sixteen-year-old girl, is bored with her life and is desperate for something new. She lives in Chickentown, Minnesota, has a drunkard father, and is often made fun of by other kids. One day at school, a strange image enters her head, and she draws it in a textbook. When her teacher notices, she is furious, and Candy has the sudden impulse to simply walk out of school. She wanders around town before coming to a vast field with an old lighthouse, and wonders why there would be a lighthouse where there is no sea for thousands of miles. She soon has her answer.\r\nCandy is thrust into the Abarat, a fantastic archipelago of twenty-five islands: one for each hour of the day, plus one extra: the mysterious Time Out of Time. Candy feels as if this place is familiar to her, and makes many friends, but all is not well: Christopher Carrion, Prince of Midnight, is pursuing her. Candy must find her place in this strange new world."}, "title": "Abarat", "covers": [-1], "subject_places": ["Minnesota"], "first_publish_date": "October 2003", "key": "/works/OL257790W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL2621804A"}}], "subject_times": ["Early 21st Century"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Fantasy", "Space and time", "Fiction"], "latest_revision": 16, "revision": 16, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-24T00:36:36.861649"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-02-12T21:55:33.760714"}}