Inkheart

This story is about Meggie and her father who live in an old farm house. Meggie's father mends books, chasing away the mold and book worms and giving them new dresses. Meggie didn't remember her mother who had gone away nine years before. One day Meggie looked out her window and saw a strange man standing out in the pouring rain. He was just standing there staring at their house. She went to tell her father and he brought the stranger in. Only, her father seemed to know him. He called him Dustfinger and Dustfinger called her father Silvertongue. Meggie was sent to her room to go to bed but she sneaked back and listened outside the door to them talk in hushed voices about a horrible man called Capricorn. The way they talked scared Meggie and she begged her father to send him away. She didn't like him.

The next morning Meggie's father woke her up early and was packing for a trip. They set off on a trip that Meggie would never forget, to a place where things come out of books and are not always good. Meggie learned that it is a lot more fun to read about the adventures in books than to be in them herself.