The Stone Key

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The Stone Key

2007 Penguin Australia paperback cover
Author Isobelle Carmody
Country Australia
Language English
Series Obernewtyn Chronicles
Genre(s) Science fiction novel
Publisher Viking Children's Books
Publication date 4 February 2008
Preceded by The Keeping Place
Followed by The Sending (forthcoming)

The Stone Key is a science fiction novel by Isobelle Carmody, set in a post apocalyptic world. It is the fifth book in the Obernewtyn Chronicles. It was released on January 31st 2008.

Elspeth Gordie leaves Obernewtyn to testify at the trial of a rebel traitor, but instead, she finds herself enmeshed in an invasion. In seeking to thwart it, she is swept into the strangest and most dangerous journey she had ever undertaken; a journey which brings her to the mysterious Herder Isle and to the Council occupied West Land, where she must find a deadly plague carrier …Elspeth feels that she has strayed far from her quest to find and disarm the weaponmachines that destroyed the Beforetime, but as ever, she discovers that everything she had done had brought her to the final clue she will need in order to reach the weaponmachines...