100 Cupboards
Author:
N.D. Wilson 
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Cover Artist:
Jeff Nentrup
Publication:
2007 by Random House
Genre:
Adventure, Fantasy, Fiction
Series:
100 Cupboards 
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Series Number: 1
Pages:
289
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Twelve-year-old Henry York is going to sleep one night when he hears a bump on the attic wall above his head. It's an unfamiliar house—Henry is staying with his aunt, uncle, and three cousins—so he tries to ignore it. But the next night he wakes up with bits of plaster in his hair. Two knobs have broken through the wall, and one of them is slowly turning....
Henry scrapes the plaster off the wall and discovers doors—ninety-nine cupboards of all different sizes and shapes. Through one he can hear the sound of falling rain. Through another he sees a glowing room—with a man strolling back and forth! Henry and his cousin Henrietta soon understand that these are not just cupboards. They are, in fact, portals to other worlds.
100 Cupboards is the first book of a new fantasy adventure, written in the best world-hopping tradition and reinvented in N. D. Wilson's own inimitable style.
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N.D. Wilson
1978 -American
N.D. Wilson lives and writes in the top of a tall, skinny house only one block from where he was born. But his best-selling novels have traveled far... See more
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100 Cupboards
Reviewed by Matt Berman
Brilliant idea. Flawed execution. Exciting anyway...
100 Cupboards
The ending concludes the adventure satisfactorily but leaves plenty of room for a sequel....
100 Cupboards
When his travel-writer parents are kidnapped in Colombia, 12-year-old Henry York...
*100 Cupboards Series: 100 Cupboards
Reviewed by Betsy Farquhar
Yet Wilson also portrays the grand narrative thread of Scripture itself: creation (Henry, KS, at the beginning), a terrific fall (the release of the witch Nimiane at the unwitting hand of Henry is a remarkable parallel to Adam’s original sin, isn’t it, in which sin entered our world and corrupted it fully and utterly), and the hope of redemption–that there will be a way to fix this mess with Nimiane, but it will involve sacrifice.
100 Cupboards
Reviewed by Sara Masarik
You have probably heard the Chesterton quote that admonishes us to read fairy tales – not so that we can know that the dragon exists but so that we can know that it will be defeated. In 100 Cupboards, the witch is real. She claims lives violently (all off scene) and she is terrifying. But she can and will be defeated. Like St. George and the Dragon, however, it isn’t neat and tidy and it is deeply unsettling out of context.
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