TY  - BOOK
AU  - Karchut,Darby
TI  - The hound at the gate
T2  - The Adventures of Finn MacCullen
SN  - 9781939392480
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Contoocook, NH
PB  - Spencer Hill Press
KW  - Apprentices
KW  - Juvnile fiction
KW  - Knights and knighthood
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Magic
KW  - Goblins
KW  - Fantasy fiction
N2  - FANTASY & MAGICAL REALISM. Autumn: the season of endings. And beginnings. Especially for one young apprentice. At the annual Festival of the Hunt, thirteen-year-old apprentice goblin hunter Finn MacCullen and his master, Gideon Lir, join other Tuatha De Danaan to honor their peopleas heritage. But Finn soon realizes that there are some who denounce his right to attend due to his half-human bloodline. While he struggles to keep his place by his masteras side, he finds himself embroiled in a decades-old grudge between Gideon and another Knight, bewildered (and beguiled) by a female apprentice with a temper as explosive as his own, and battling a pack of goblins determined to wipe out the entire camp in a surprise attack. Itas going to take some fancy knife work, the help of a female Knight with a lethal bow, and one old pick up truck to defeat the goblins and prove to his people that his blood runs true-blue Tuatha De Danaan. Ages 9+
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