The Prisoner of Shiverstone

A positively ingenious story about a mysterious island, long-lost secrets, and a young girlÆs quest in the world of mad science! In Linette MooreÆs debut, middle-grade graphic novel, The Prisoner of Shiverstone, eleven-year-old Helga Sharp is found unconscious in a drifting rowboat near the coast of Utley Island. Utley, as Helga finds out when she awakens in the hospital, is forbidden territory: itÆs a prison island to which the Mainland has exiled troublesome mad scientists for generations. Helga is questioned by the islandÆs guards and though theyÆre suspicious of her story, they agree to let her stay until they find her family.The truth is, itÆs no accident that Helga landed here. She is a keen inventor, but the Mainland is suspicious of all scientists and inventors. While working on her projects in secret, Helga made radio contact with Erasmus Lope, a mad genius who everyone thought had died in a lab experiment gone spectacularly wrong. But Lope is alive, and Helga is on a mission to rescue him from the p