Peter and the Sword of Mercy

Peter and the Starcatchers

Peter and the Shadow Thieves

Peter and the Secret of Rundoon

Escape from the Carnivale

Cave of the Dark Wind

Blood Tide

Science Fair

ALSO BY RIDLEY PEARSON

Kingdom Keepers—Disney After Dark

Kingdom Keepers II—Disney at Dawn

Kingdom Keepers III—Disney in Shadow

Steel Trapp—The Challenge

Copyright © 2009 Dave Barry and Page One, Inc.

Illustrations copyright © 2009 by Greg Call

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CKNOWLEDGMENTS

First, we thank all the readers—especially the young readers—who kept asking us to write another Starcatchers book. We really hadn’t planned to, but you talked us into it, and we’re very happy you did. It was great fun to bring the familiar characters back, and to introduce them to some new ones.

We appreciate all the great people at Disney • Hyperion Books, especially our wise and ever supportive editor, Wendy Lefkon, and our unflappable publicist, Jennifer Levine. We promise them that at future book-signing events, we will try to make sure that there are no snakes.

We salute the amazing, brilliant, ever enthusiastic archaeologist Patrick Hunt of Stanford University for digging around the world of swords and museums for us. That there’s a character in this book named Patrick Hunt is, of course, purely coincidental. We also thank Sam Thomas of the London Underground Customer Service Center for helping us with historical research for scenes set in the Underground. Any inaccuracies in those scenes, or any others, are completely our fault.

We thank Judi Smith for her diligent research and ruthless proofreading.

And hats off to our wives, Michelle Kaufman and Marcelle Pearson, for letting us do this instead of getting real jobs.

Title Page

Copyright Page

P
ROLOGUE
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ART 1:
The Sword

P
ROLOGUE
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ART 2:
The Eyes

C
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1:
Disappearance

C
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2:
The Skeleton

C
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3:
The Visitor

C
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4:
The Rescue

C
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5:
Revile’s Report

C
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6:
Molly Goes Looking

C
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7:
Troubling Questions

C
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8:
Wendy Learns the Secret

C
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9:
The Bishop’s Miter

C
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10:
The Cab

C
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11:
Darkness

C
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12:
The Glow

C
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13:
Uncle Neville

C
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14:
The Prize

C
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15:
Alone

C
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16:
“For Good”

C
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17:
A Familiar Face

C
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18:
Uncle Ted

C
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19:
A Tiny Shooting Star

C
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20:
Foo

C
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21:
Only Blackness

C
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22:
Danger Coming

C
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23:
Signposts in the Sea

C
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24:
Breakthrough

C
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25:
Lifeline

C
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26:
Tug-o’-War

C
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27:
The Last Bit

C
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28:
One Last Push

C
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29:
Nowhere Else

C
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30:
The Call

C
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31:
The Plan

C
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32:
IceCoffin

C
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33:
Worries

C
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34:
It’s Here

C
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35:
Deasy’s Tale

C
HAPTER
36:
A Second Bowl

C
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37:
A Big Puff

C
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38:
Good News and Bad

C
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39:
The Signal

C
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40:
The Plan

C
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41:
An Odd Report

C
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42:
Someplace Safe

C
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43:
No Worse Fate

C
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44:
Almost Here

C
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45:
A Whisper Down the Tunnel

C
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46:
One Light and One Dark

C
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47:
The Launch

C
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48:
The Scotland Landing

C
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49:
The Mission

C
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50:
The Third Element

C
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51:
Only Darkness

C
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52:
The Velvet Sack

C
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53:
Until Tonight

C
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54:
A Minor Mishap

C
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55:
The White Starfish

C
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56:
A Flash of Lightning

C
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57:
Prisoners

C
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58:
Visitors

C
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59:
The Cave

C
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60:
Another Way

C
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61:
The Sandal

C
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62:
The Cave

C
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63:
The Glowing Pool