The Stone Key

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The Stone Key
2007 Penguin Australia paperback cover
Author	Isobelle Carmody
Country	Australia
Language	English
Series	Obernewtyn Chronicles
Genre(s)	Science fiction novel
Publisher	Viking Children's Books
Publication date	4 February 2008
Pages	1000
ISBN	ISBN 978-0-670-07134-0 (Australian paperback)
OCLC Number	225756476
LC Classification	PZ7.C2176 St 2008
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 31, 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.

The Stone Key was also shortlisted for the Best Young Adult Novel in the 2008 Aurealis Award.^{[citation needed]}

This book has been separated into two books for publication in the USA, entitled Wavesong and The Stone Key respectively.^[1]

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1. ^ "News from Isobelle Carmody", Obernewtyn.net. Retrieved on July 21, 2008

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