Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service. Cuando el padre de Meggie saluda a un extraño visitante que aparece en su casa, la niña siente que aquella persona emana un peligro. Entonces huyen a la casa de tía Elinor, propietaria de una fascinante biblioteca. Meggie descubre que los...

As Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double--tries to keep the Book of Immortality from unraveling, Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom, asking for Bluejay's surrender or the children will be doomed to slavery in the silver mines.