Cornelia Funke - InkheartIn Inkheart, the twelve-year-old, Meggie, discovers that her father Mortimer, a professional bookbinder, has the unusual ability to transfer characters from books into the real world when he reads aloud. Scared by his own talents, Mo once brought four characters of a book entitled Inkheart to life while reading from the novel.
A year has passed, but not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of Inkheart, a book whose characters came to life. Resa is back, but she has no voice. For the fire-eater Dustfinger, the need to return to the tale has become desperate. When he finds a crooked storyteller ,Orpheus, to read him back, he abandons his apprentice Farid, and plunges into the pages. Orpheus doesn't read Farid back into the book like he was supposed to, he leaves the name "boy" out...
The story begins with Farid working for Orpheus, in hopes of him reading Dustfinger back to life, and Meggie and her parents living with the Black Prince and his gang of robbers. However, the key to bringing Dustfinger back is communicating with the White Women themselves, and so far Orpheus does not have any knowledge as to how to meet them. Knowing that Mo has the power to summon up the White Women, Orpheus offers him the return trip to the real world his wife and daughter, and demands a meeting with the White Women.
