Key To Rondo by Emily Rodda (9781862918450)

Description - Key To Rondo by Emily Rodda

Turn the key three times only. Never turn the key while the music is
playing. Never pick up the box while the music is playing. Never close
the lid until the music has stopped.The day that Leo Zifkak became the owner of the music box, his life
changed forever.
Leo didn't know this at the time. His heart didn't miss a beat as he
took the box calmly from his mother and put it on his desk. He had no
idea what he was holding in his hands.
The old music box has its rules, carefully handed down through the
generations in Leo's family.A long-ago ancestor called Rollo had
brought it back from one of his world trips. It had a plain black shiny
lid, but its sides were painted with detailed scenes of a town, a castle
on a hill, a queen in a long blue gown. Those who had owned it before
Leo understood its powers well, and placed strict limits on its use. But
now it is Leo's music box, and although he respects the rules, his
least favourite cousin Mimi Langlander does not. When the rules are
flouted and the Blue Queen appears and takes Mimi's dog Mutt back to the
world of Rondo, Leo finds himself on an alarming quest to retrieve him,
with the disagreeable Mimi at his side.

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