A group of creatures carry them to a nearby island where Candy is separated from him. After giving her a key to protect and extinguishing the light, Mischief and Candy ride the seas to Abarat. She finds it and is surprised to see it is covered in swirling lines exactly like the ones she doodled in her school book. As Shape gets away from Mischief and his brothers and begins to climb the stairs, Candy searches for the ball that goes in the cup and will light the lamp. When she reaches the top, she finds an inverted pyramid with a cup on top. Candy climbs the rotting lighthouse stairs while the brothers distract Shape. Because he is pursued by a sinister humanoid being named Mendelson Shape, Mischief sends Candy to light the lamp in the lighthouse, which summons an ocean known as the Sea of Izabella from a parallel world.
Mischief's seven brothers live on these horns, appearing only as heads. She then encounters a master thief named John Mischief who looks human except for the antlers on his head.
She finds this incredibly strange because Chickentown is thousands of miles from the ocean. After an argument with her teacher over a school project and the doodling Candy has done in her school workbook, Candy leaves the school and goes to the edge of town, where she sees the remains of a lighthouse. Plot Ībarat focuses on Candy Quackenbush, a teenage girl frustrated with her life in Chickentown, Minnesota. The American Library Association picked Abarat as one of its Best Books for Young Adults. By most accounts, Barker realised early that the story he wanted to tell could not be contained in one book. Barker had already completed 300 paintings before he started working on the first book.
The paintings in the book are done with oils. The title image contains an ambigram, which may indicate that it's derived from the Russian word 'наоборот' meaning 'backwards'. The eponymous Abarat is a fictional archipelago which is the setting for the majority of the story. Abarat (2002) is a fantasy novel written and illustrated by Clive Barker, the first in Barker's The Books of Abarat series.
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