The Young Unicorns
They had been standing around the lamp, looking at Emily holding it in her strong fingers, rubbing it. Certainly none of them, not even Rob, expected to hear a sepulchral voice behind them.
"You called me?"
They swung around.
Standing looking down on them was a tall, powerful figure in long smoky green robes and a pale-blue turban. He repeated, "You called me? I am the genie Hythloday, the servant of the lamp."
A bizarre and terrifying plot to rule New York City means extreme danger for the Austin family and their friends, all of whom are targets for corruption - or destruction.
Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) was an American writer best known for her young adult fiction.