Magic Moon

Magic Moon (original title: Märchenmond, meaning "Fairy Tale Moon") is a young adult fantasy novel written by German authors Wolfgang and Heike Hohlbein in 1982. The book was Hohlbein's first success as a writer and the starting point of his career as one of Europe's most well-known and prolific fantasy writers. It was published in over a dozen countries and sold more than two million copies, and became the first Hohlbein novel released in the English-speaking world in 2006. Kim is an average German schoolboy who loves to delve into his favorite science fiction novel series, Star Fighter. His daydreaming life spirals into a nightmare when his parents inform him that his little sister Rebecca has fallen into a mysterious coma after her appendectomy. A visitor from the realm of Magic Moon, the wizard Themistocles, tells him there is only one way to free her from the enchantment of eternal sleep: Kim himself must travel into the land of dreams and save her from the dark wizard Boraas, who has captured her soul. Using the power of his imagination, Kim travels to Magic Moon in a spaceship, but it crashlands on the east side of the Shadow Mountains, an unsurmountable mountain range which separates Magic Moon from Boraas' Realm of Shadows. Kim is collected by a black-armored knight named Baron Kart and brought to Castle Morgon, Boraas' abode, where the dark wizard reveals that he is holding Rebecca's soul in order to lure Kim to him and gain his allegiance in conquering Magic Moon. Desperate, Kim makes an escape, which ends in a chamber with a strange mirror. Struck by a sudden, mysterious weakness upon seeing his reflection, he barely manages to exit the castle and is temporarily sheltered by a young amphibious boy named Ado and his father, the Pond King.