title: The Stonekeeper (Amulet, Book 1)
author:  Kazu Kibuishi 
description: "[The] action-packed adventure sequences move at an exciting clip...Part fantasy...and part manga, this volume has much appeal to readers." - Booklist
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  KEEPERS
  
  
  of the
  
  
  STONE
  
  
  Book One:
  
  
  Outcast
  
  
  Andrew Anzur Clement
  
  
  Copyright © 2017, Andrew Anzur Clement
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  One
  
  
  She galloped away from them, studiously refusing to look back. The horse’s
  hoofs pounded a quick rhythm onto the white sand as she rode southward along
  the beach in front of Madras. Palm fronds rustled in the breeze coming off the
  water and her habit fluttered in its force, revealing wisps of slightly wavy
  brown hair, a shade lighter than most natives of the subcontinent possessed.
  
  
  _Where should I go?_ she thought.
  
  
  The two newfound friends who now lay behind her weren’t unintelligent. She’d
  been surprised when they’d accepted what she had told them about her
  destination; she knew it in her gut. The one with a strange name, whose
  country she had never heard of, had seen through the disguise of nun’s robes
  that only yesterday belonged to her sister. Yet, he had said nothing.
  
  
  No. She couldn’t go back to her 