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9780152051235 Hardcover
0152051236
$17.00
288pages
Available
Trim Size:
5-1/2 x 8-1/4
Copyright Year:
2004
Territory:
US, C, I
Ages: 12 years and up |
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Synopsis |
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Scattered among poor, desolate farms, the clans of the Uplands possess gifts. Wondrous gifts: the ability--with a glance, a gesture, a word--to summon animals, bring forth fire, move the land. Fearsome gifts: They can twist a limb, chain a mind, inflict a wasting illness. The Uplanders live in constant fear that one family might unleash its gift against another. Two young people, friends since childhood, decide not to use their gifts. One, a girl, refuses to bring animals to their death in the hunt. The other, a boy, wears a blindfold lest his eyes and his anger kill.
In this beautifully crafted story, Ursula K. Le Guin writes of the proud cruelty of power, of how hard it is to grow up, and of how much harder still it is to find, in the world's darkness, gifts of light.
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Biography |
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URSULA K. LE GUIN is the author of more than three dozen books. She was awarded a Newbery Honor for the second volume of the Earthsea Cycle, The Tombs of Atuan, and among her many other distinctions are the Margaret A. Edwards Award, a National Book Award, and five Nebula Awards. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
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Awards |
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| Amazon.com Top 10 Editors' Picks for Tee |
| Booklist Editors’ Choice |
| CCBC Choices |
| Judy Lopez Memorial Award |
| Margaret A. Edwards Award • Author Award |
| New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age |
| Parents’ Choice Silver Honor |
| PEN Center USA Award for Fiction |
| Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, A |
| TAYSHAS High School Reading List [Texas] |
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General Subjects |
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Juvenile Fiction- Science Fiction, Fantasy, Magic
Juvenile Fiction- Social Situations/Prejudice & Racism
Juvenile Fiction- General
Juvenile Fiction- Social Situations/Adolescence
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Curriculum Themes |
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| Fantasy |
| Fantasy: Creatures of Myth & Legend |
| Social Situations |
Social Situations- Friendship
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Social Situations- Values
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Rights Details |
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| Rights Holders: |
B/T/P/M: Virginia Kidd
Second Serial/Reprint/Book Club/Electronic: Harcourt
All other rights: Virginia Kidd
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Rights Information |
Harcourt Children's Books
A Division ofHarcourt Trade Publishers
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Harcourt Education Company
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