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* LockedInAFreezer: A variation in ''The Chestnut King'', where several of the protagonists are captured by enemy soldiers and [[ShippedInShackles chained up]] in the overheated hold of a slave galley. The heat and smell are portrayed as uncomfortable but not dangerous for most of them, with the exception of [[spoiler:Monmouth]], who is bound and hung from the ceiling stuffed into a close-woven kelp sack. [[spoiler:James]] notes that due to the heat and dehydration, he will be unlikely to survive the day.
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* RetiredBadass: Uncle Frank, at one time a prince from another dimension and ferocious fighter before he came out of a portal to Kansas and met Dotty.
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* PowerNullifier: Cloth woven of kelp or cobweb works this way for both green and wizard magic: Fat Frank, Monmouth and Eli are all [[BagOfKidnapping transported wrapped in cloth sacks sacks]] at one point or another, and Henry manages to temporarily disable a wizard by covering his face with cobweb fabric.
* RetiredBadass: Uncle Frank, at one time a prince from another dimension and ferocious fighter before he came out of a portal to Kansas and metDotty. Dotty.
* ScarsAreForever: The first bonding of a Green Man to their plant causes a permanent burn scar on the palm of the hand.
** The scars on [[spoiler:Henry's]] face from the dripping of [[spoiler:Nimiane's blood]] are not only permanent, but ''growing'.
* SealedGoodInACan: [[spoiler:Mordecai, Henry's father]], was trapped in a barrow by the faeren.
* RetiredBadass: Uncle Frank, at one time a prince from another dimension and ferocious fighter before he came out of a portal to Kansas and met
* ScarsAreForever: The first bonding of a Green Man to their plant causes a permanent burn scar on the palm of the hand.
** The scars on [[spoiler:Henry's]] face from the dripping of [[spoiler:Nimiane's blood]] are not only permanent, but ''growing'.
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* MagicalSeventhSon: The Green Men in general, and [[spoiler: Henry]] in particular. The magic system seems to run on this, with an AlwaysMale specification.
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* TheAlcoholic: The man in Orlando is described in terms which suggest this.
* AllThereInTheManual: At the beginning if each book, there is a reproduction of Henry and Henrietta's grandfather's journal, showing where all those cupboards go.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Anastasia to Henrietta and both of them to Penelope.
* AllThereInTheManual: At the beginning if each book, there is a reproduction of Henry and Henrietta's grandfather's journal, showing where all those cupboards go.
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* BaseballEpisode: Henry spends one chapter playing baseball.
* BigBad: Nimiane, the Witch-Queen of Endor
* BrattyHalfPint: Anastasia. Henrietta also shows shades of this sometimes.
* CannotKeepASecret: Anastasia. When she denies this, her sisters are all too happy to bring up all the times she's proven it true (letting a birthday present slip, telling someone else about their private tree fort etc.)
* BigBad: Nimiane, the Witch-Queen of Endor
* BrattyHalfPint: Anastasia. Henrietta also shows shades of this sometimes.
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* BadassFamily: [[spoiler: Henry, his father and uncles, his aunt, his brothers and eventually even his cousins, who were raised normally, all take active roles in fighting the villains of the story]].
* CannotKeepASecret: Anastasia. When she denies this, her sisters are all too happy to bring up all the times she's proven it true (letting a birthday present slip, telling someone else about their private tree fort etc.)
* ChainsawGood: Frank uses this to help open up some of the doors early in the first book.
* CoolUncle: Frank; initially in a quiet, but sage way, but then in a more awesome fashion once his past and bailies become clearer. Caleb also applies, being an ArcherArchetype and FriendToAllLivingThings whose had his share of adventures with Frank and Mordecai and proves to be a dependable ally.
* FieryRedhead: Anastasia, in a sense. She's described as having brown hair that "looked like it wanted to be red."
** Also [[spoiler: Richard]] once the family takes him in.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: The first book describes how only two people on Earth would recognize the wood on one of the doors; a man living in a run-down Orlando apartment who "very much wanted to believe that most of his childhood had not actually happened" and the widow of a French WWI soldier whose husband came home "with some very strange story and a small sapling in a tin cup." Neither of those characters has a major role, or even appears again, but those hints about their backstories scream of all kinds of adventures.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: The first book describes how only two people on Earth would recognize the wood on one of the doors; a man living in a run-down Orlando apartment who "very much wanted to believe that most of his childhood had not actually happened" and the widow of a French WWI soldier whose husband came home "with some very strange story and a small sapling in a tin cup." Neither of those characters has a major role, or even appears again, but those hints about their backstories scream of all kinds of adventures.
* LovableJock: Zeke Johnson, a local baseball star, good friend to the family and eventual participant in their adventures.
* RetiredBadass: Uncle Frank, at one time a prince from another dimension and ferocious fighter before he came out of a portal to Kansas and met Dotty.
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'' A prequel, ''The Door Before'', was published later.
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*BrattyHalfPint: Anastasia. Henrietta also shows shades of this sometimes.
*TheChainsOfCommanding: By the third book, Henry is well-aware of this, which is why he is less than enthused to [[spoiler: become the Chestnut King's heir]].
*BrattyHalfPint: Anastasia. Henrietta also shows shades of this sometimes.
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*ImportantHaircut: Henrietta recieves one in ''The Chestnut King''--and complains about it regularly.
*LoopholeAbuse: How Henry [[spoiler: designates Franklin Fat Faerie as his heir]].
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''100 Cupboards'' is a fantasy novel trilogy by N.D. Wilson. The three books in the trilogy are ''100 Cupboards, Dandelion Fire,'' and ''The Chestnut King.''
Henry York's parents went biking through Colombia. Bad idea: They get taken hostage by a rebel group. In order to keep him sane, his nanny sends him off to be with his aunt, uncle, and cousins for a while. They live in a tiny town in Kansas called Henry, and they also have a daughter named Henrietta. (Don't worry, it's not too confusing.) Henry has never been so far from home before. He's never spent so much time outside before, or ridden in the back of a pickup truck, or played baseball. In fact, while he was with his parents, he never got to do much on his own at all.
While sleeping up in his cousins' attic, though, he hears a strange tapping on the walls. The plaster begins to chip away--and behind it, Henry and his cousins find 99 tiny doors. Each one leads to a different place. Each one leads to a different ''time.'' And it's only with the help of his grandfather's journal that they can be navigated... not-quite safely.
Henry considers keeping them a secret, but his aunt Dotty and Uncle Frank already know--Frank, all too well. And Henry ''may'' have accidentally released an ancient witch hidden behind one of the doors. Now he, his family, and even a few friends set off on a world-hopping adventure not quite of their own volition.
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!!'''This series contains examples of:'''
* AllThereInTheManual: At the beginning if each book, there is a reproduction of Henry and Henrietta's grandfather's journal, showing where all those cupboards go.
* BatterUp: Zeke, being a baseball player, puts his bat to the test.
* BaseballEpisode: Henry spends one chapter playing baseball.
* CoolGate: All the cupboards. Especially the 100th, which allows one to actually ''travel'' between the doors. Except "Cleave," but that's a given.
* CoolPet: The Raggant is one
* DarkIsEvil:
* EyeScream: The author seems to have a thing about this. Nimiane's true eyes are just [[spoiler: swollen, red sores]], and, in the second book, [[spoiler: Henry tries to scratch his own eyes out because he believes he's grown a second pair of eyelids.]]
* TheFairFolk
* NamesTheSame: Main character: Henry. Main setting [[spoiler: (until about the midpoint of ''Dandelion Fire'')]], also Henry.
* OneSteveLimit: There's both Uncle Frank (Francis) and the faerie Frank (Franklin). As well as Anastasia (Henry's cousin) and Anastasia [[spoiler: (Henry's grandmother)]], though that's a case of the former definitely being named after the latter. To say nothing of Henry and Henrietta.
* SealedGoodInACan: Mordecai, [[spoiler: Henry's father]]
* SteamPunk: Byzantatum.
* WonderChild: [[spoiler: Henry himself was one.]]
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Henry York's parents went biking through Colombia. Bad idea: They get taken hostage by a rebel group. In order to keep him sane, his nanny sends him off to be with his aunt, uncle, and cousins for a while. They live in a tiny town in Kansas called Henry, and they also have a daughter named Henrietta. (Don't worry, it's not too confusing.) Henry has never been so far from home before. He's never spent so much time outside before, or ridden in the back of a pickup truck, or played baseball. In fact, while he was with his parents, he never got to do much on his own at all.
While sleeping up in his cousins' attic, though, he hears a strange tapping on the walls. The plaster begins to chip away--and behind it, Henry and his cousins find 99 tiny doors. Each one leads to a different place. Each one leads to a different ''time.'' And it's only with the help of his grandfather's journal that they can be navigated... not-quite safely.
Henry considers keeping them a secret, but his aunt Dotty and Uncle Frank already know--Frank, all too well. And Henry ''may'' have accidentally released an ancient witch hidden behind one of the doors. Now he, his family, and even a few friends set off on a world-hopping adventure not quite of their own volition.
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!!'''This series contains examples of:'''
* AllThereInTheManual: At the beginning if each book, there is a reproduction of Henry and Henrietta's grandfather's journal, showing where all those cupboards go.
* BatterUp: Zeke, being a baseball player, puts his bat to the test.
* BaseballEpisode: Henry spends one chapter playing baseball.
* CoolGate: All the cupboards. Especially the 100th, which allows one to actually ''travel'' between the doors. Except "Cleave," but that's a given.
* CoolPet: The Raggant is one
* DarkIsEvil:
* EyeScream: The author seems to have a thing about this. Nimiane's true eyes are just [[spoiler: swollen, red sores]], and, in the second book, [[spoiler: Henry tries to scratch his own eyes out because he believes he's grown a second pair of eyelids.]]
* TheFairFolk
* NamesTheSame: Main character: Henry. Main setting [[spoiler: (until about the midpoint of ''Dandelion Fire'')]], also Henry.
* OneSteveLimit: There's both Uncle Frank (Francis) and the faerie Frank (Franklin). As well as Anastasia (Henry's cousin) and Anastasia [[spoiler: (Henry's grandmother)]], though that's a case of the former definitely being named after the latter. To say nothing of Henry and Henrietta.
* SealedGoodInACan: Mordecai, [[spoiler: Henry's father]]
* SteamPunk: Byzantatum.
* WonderChild: [[spoiler: Henry himself was one.]]
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