For Ages
8 to 12

The Door Before (100 Cupboards Prequel) is a part of the The 100 Cupboards collection.

Open the cupboard door to this action-packed fantasy that will take readers to the very beginning of the bestselling 100 Cupboards series!

100 Cupboards, 100 Worlds of Adventure!

When Hyacinth finds an unusual door, two boys in search of vengeance, and a witch intent on destroying the world, the ultimate battle of good vs. evil begins!
 
Hyacinth Smith can see things that others miss, stop attack dogs from attacking, and grow trees where no trees…

An Excerpt fromThe Door Before (100 Cupboards Prequel)

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Every storm will spill a final drop. Every mortal will draw a final breath. Every road will carry a final traveler.

 

High on a towering cliff of sandstone, above a gray churning sea and below swaying groves of redwood trees, all three of those finales were coming to pass in the same place and in the same dusky twilight.

 

While hungry waves watched, a coal-colored truck with only one headlight crawled along the cliff’s lip, tugging a stubby silver camper behind it, windows gleaming wet.

 

For more than a century, the crude cliff road had carried its travelers safely through gullies and over rises, well back from where the continent ended and the Pacific Ocean began. But there is nothing in the world so greedy and determined as the sea. Meadows of wildflowers and stands of cedars had all been chewed away, leaving nothing to border the road but air and floating gulls and drifting spray from the largest waves.

 

The road’s final traveler was a twelve-year-old girl in the camper trailer, seated on a defeated old cushion on…

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