{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "'Anything you want to know, you hold the stone, ask me, and I will give you the answer'. Douglas is not the sort of boy to panic when something out of the ordinary happens. But when he meets a native of the planet Vangar whose arm has dropped off and needs his help, and who is being hunted by the Guardians of the Federation, well, even Douglas finds things a bit of a strain..."}, "covers": [501857], "key": "/works/OL7979480W", "authors": [{"type": "/type/author_role", "author": {"key": "/authors/OL2658651A"}}], "title": "The Touchstone", "subjects": ["Fiction", "Young Adult Fiction", "Human-alien encounters", "Juvenile fiction", "Children's fiction", "Extraterrestrial beings, fiction", "Fantasy fiction"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T22:16:07.142211"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-11-17T14:03:50.802615"}}