Emma, having tarried with Gabriel to repel the Countess's followers, is shot with a poisonous arrow, but is saved by Gabriel's wisewoman, Granny Peet. Pym, and thence returns to the time she most-recently left. Upon finding it, Kate is drawn into an earlier time, where she again meets Dr. Pym, with whom they recover the Emerald Atlas. There, they discover a fifteen-years-younger Dr. In escape, they are hunted by wolves meet someone named Gabriel and enter a subterranean maze, where Kate and Michael are captured by Dwarves. His sisters return to save him, but lose the book (the eponymous 'Emerald Atlas'). Kate and Emma escape, but Michael is accidentally left behind.

The Countess notices the three orphans and calls upon her grotesque henchmen, designated Screechers, to capture them.

There, the children observe a witch, titled the Countess, vowing to kill a child every week until the enslaved fathers of the children find what she seeks. When an old photograph is touched to a page of the open book, the children are teleported to the date and location on which the photograph was taken. In the basement, a door appears before them, and they discover an emerald-colored book containing no text. There, they are introduced to its owner, Dr. After their rejection by a prospective adoptive mother, the children's current residence (called the Edgar Allan Poe Home for Incorrigible and Hopeless Orphans) sends them to a mansion situated in Cambridge Falls. Kate, the eldest, remembers that, ten years ago on Christmas Eve, her mother had made her promise to protect her siblings, and in turn promised the family's reunion.

Kate, Emma, and Michael are siblings shifted from one orphanage to another over their lifetimes. As the siblings encounter various magical races in an effort to dispel the witch, Kate discovers that she is intrinsically bound to the Atlas, and that the three children are subject to an ancient prophecy. Upon traveling to the past, they happen across a witch who has enslaved the nearby town, Cambridge Falls, in an attempt to find the book, known as the Atlas, that the children possess. Pym, where they find a magical book that grants the power of moving through time. The book follows orphan siblings Kate, Michael, and Emma who, following a succession of unsuccessful orphanage dwellings, are transferred to the mansion of Dr. The second book, The Fire Chronicle, was released in 2012. The Emerald Atlas is the first novel of the children's fantasy trilogy The Books of Beginning by John Stephens.

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