Synopsis
Kajsa is the city's best climbing thief. She lives in the sunken city, where all the houses and streets are flooded. Fortunately, her best friend, Isak, has a battered underwater boat, which they dream of repairing to sail far away together.
But one day Kajsa steals some valuable crystals, and suddenly she and Isak have the town's most feared criminal after them...
The Crystal Ship is a magnificent adventure on water and in the air, about friendship, betrayal, water rats – and some very special crystals.
Reviews
"The beginning of a wild and tumultuous story ... The book captures the reader immediately ... Bødker manages to concoct a story which makes you glued to the pages from start to finish." – (Weekendavisen)
"This is the gift that you can give and know that you will hit the mark regardless of the recipient." – (The Book Experience (Bogoplevelsen))
"With 'The Crystal Ship', Benni Bødker has written an excellent adventure for girls and boys in a steampunk-like universe with wonderful references to Jules Verne's world of mechanisms and machines. The book is suitable for self-reading and reading aloud, and is written entirely at children's level with main characters that are easy to identify with." – (The Literature Page (LItteratursiden))
"It is an incredibly well-written, dramatic and exciting novel that Benni Bødker has written here. It has a drive that keeps the reader hooked from beginning to end. It's simply a good novel." – (Children & Books (Børn & Bøger))
