The Silver Arrow
core novel 2020 The Silver Arrow
Record
| First published | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.00 (4,292 ratings, collected 2026-11-02) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780316539531 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Eleven-year-old Kate feels her life is dull and wishes for the kind of adventures found in books. For her birthday, her eccentric uncle Herbert, whom she has never met, sends her a life-size steam locomotive called the Silver Arrow. Her parents want to return it, but Kate and her younger brother Tom decide to keep it. The sentient train carries the two children along a network of magical rail lines to distant lands, together with the talking animals it is taking to new habitats. Along the way Kate and Tom learn about endangered and invasive species and habitat loss, and about looking at the world with fresh eyes.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Silver Arrow
- Series: The Silver Arrow core; position 1 of 2 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Lev Grossman
Notes
- From the series record (The Silver Arrow): Two middle-grade fantasy novels about siblings who run a magical steam train that moves animals to safer homes.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Silver Arrow: position 1 of 2: next The Golden Swift (2022)
Sources
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