The Last Siege by Jonathan Stroud

The protagonist of the Last Siege by Jonathan Stroud, is a girl named Emily; the secondary characters are Marcus and Simon, while the antagonist is Marcus' father. The year the story takes place in is not stated but I assume it takes place in the 1980's. The story's setting is in a ruined castle near an English town. In this story Emily, Marcus, and Simon explore the castle and, one day, sleep in it. On another day Marcus escapes from his father, and hides in the castle where he meets his friends. There they resists a siege put up by Marcus' father to capture Marcus and bring him back home. This happens because Marcus says that his father has mistreated him while it really was not true. This is shown by the fact that Marcus' father tries to persuade Marcus to get out of the castle but Marcus refuses. Therefore, Marcus' father is forced to break into the castle.

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