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Cornish, D.M.: Lamplighter.(Lamplighter: Monster Blood Tattoo, Book Two)(Young adult review)(Book review)
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May 1, 2008
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- Scanlon, Donna
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CORNISH, D.M. Lamplighter. (Monster Blood Tattoo, BookTwo.) Penguin. 710p. illus, maps. c2008. 978-0-399-24639-5. $19.99. JSA
In this second volume of the series, Rossamund Bookchild is now an apprentice lamplighter in the Emperor's service. The responsibility of the lamplighters is to light the way along the Emperor's highways and protect travelers from the monsters that run wild across the Half-Continent. Just as in the previous book, Foundling, Rossamund is the smallest and weakest in the group, and he is not much happier than he was at the orphanage where he was raised. At least the lamplighters have a common purpose, as he learns when he helps defend a coach from a ...