Lady Friday

First Line:

Leaf woke with a start and sat up in bed. For a moment she was disoriented, because she wasn't in her own bed. No band poster stared back at her from the wall at the foot of the bed, because there was no wall.

Description:

Arthur Penhaligon has had the most bizarre and exhausting week of his life, and he hasn't even discovered what horrors Lady Friday has been up to. Since wresting the powerful keys from four of the Morrow Days, 11-year-old Arthur has been pursued in a bottomless cavern, experienced a roiling, dangerous sea, and been drafted into an army. But now he must face Lady Friday's Paper Pushers, a hoard of nasty Fetchers, and manage to find the fifth part of the Will, all in just a very short, single day. This is the fifth title in Garth Nix's extremely engaging middle grade series the Keys to the Kingdom.