The Stone Key

Infobox Book |
name = The Stone Key


image_caption = 2007 Penguin Australia paperback cover
author = Isobelle Carmody
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country = Australia
language = English
series = Obernewtyn Chronicles
genre = Science fiction novel
release_date = 4 February 2008
publisher = Viking Children's Books
pages = 1000
isbn = ISBN 978-0-670-07134-0 (Australian paperback)
preceded_by = The Keeping Place
followed_by = The Sending (forthcoming)

"The Stone Key" is a science fiction novel by Isobelle Carmody, set in a post apocalyptic world. It is the fifth book in the Obernewtyn Chronicles.It was released on January 31st 2008.

Elspeth Gordie leaves Obernewtyn to testify at the trial of a rebel traitor, but instead, she finds herself enmeshed in an invasion. In seeking to thwart it, she is swept into the strangest and most dangerous journey she had ever undertaken; a journey which brings her to the mysterious Herder Isle and to the Council occupied West Land, where she must find a deadly plague carrier …Elspeth feels that she has strayed far from her quest to find and disarm the weaponmachines that destroyed the Beforetime, but as ever, she discovers that everything she had done had brought her to the final clue she will need in order to reach the weaponmachines...

The Stone Key has 1000 pages.

This book has been separated into two books for publication in the USA, entitled "Wavesong" and "The Stone Key" respectively. [ [http://obernewtyn.net/e107/comment.php?comment.news.36 "News from Isobelle Carmody"] , Obernewtyn.net. Retrieved on July 21, 2008]

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