02796cam a2200409 i 4500 549064627 TxAuBib 20220221120000.0 160309s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016006654 9781484775035 hardback 1484775031 hardback 9781484778067 1484778065 9781338162325 1338162322 9780606399777 Turtleback 0606399771 Turtleback (OCoLC)932173988 TxAuBib rda Beatty, Robert, 1963- Serafina and the twisted staff [Book]. New York, NY : Disney-Hyperion, 2016. 370 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Serafina Sequel to: Serafina and the black cloak. Serafina's defeat of the Man in the Black Cloak has brought her out of the shadows and into the daylight realm of her home, Biltmore Estate. Every night, she visits her mother in the forest, eager to learn the ways of the catamount. But Serafina finds herself caught between her two worlds: She's too wild for Biltmore's beautifully dressed ladies and formal customs and too human to fully join her kin. Late one night Serafina encounters a strange and terrifying figure in the forest and is attacked by the vicious wolfhounds that seem to be under his control. Even worse, she's convinced that the stranger was not alone, that he has sent his accomplice into Biltmore in disguise. Someone is wreaking havoc at the estate. A mysterious series of attacks test Serafina's role as Biltmore's protector, culminating in a tragedy that tears Serafina's best friend and only ally, Braeden Vanderbilt, from her side. Heartbroken, she flees. Deep in the forest, Serafina comes face-to-face with the evil infecting Biltmore - and discovers its reach is far greater than she'd ever imagined. All the humans and creatures of the Blue Ridge Mountains are in terrible danger. For Serafina to defeat this new evil before it engulfs her beloved home, she must search deep inside herself and embrace the destiny that has always awaited her. In 1899, when an evil threatens all the humans and animals of the Blue Ridge Mountains, twelve-year-old Serafina, rat catcher for the Biltmore estate and the daughter of a shapeshifting mountain lion, must search deep inside herself and embrace the destiny that awaits her. 20220221. Biltmore Estate (Asheville, N.C.) Fiction. Good and evil Juvenile fiction. Shapeshifting Fiction. Serafina.