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Song for a Scarlet Runner by Julie Hunt
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Song for a Scarlet Runner
by Julie Hunt
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A really wonderful fantasy-journey-adventure novel for middle-grade readers. So inventive and beautifully executed.
Peat is on the run — forced to flee for her life when she's blamed for bringing bad luck to her village. She heads for the endless marshes, where she's caught by an old healer-woman who makes Peat her apprentice and teaches her the skill of storytelling.
But a story can be a dangerous thing. It can take you out of one world and leave you stranded in another — and Peat finds herself trapped in an eerie place beyond the Silver River where time stands still. Her only friends are a 900-year-old boy and his ghost hound, plus a small and slippery sleek — a cunning creature that might sink his teeth into your leg one minute, and save your life the next.
Oh, oh, oh. Peat is wonderful! Strong, yet cautious; brave, but fearful; selfish but also full of compassion for the lost, the old and the imprisoned. She is feisty, free and faithful. And she is totally up for the adventure that unfolds in the page of Song for a Scarlet Runner.
The supporting cast is well written, too, even the cows that Peat cares for at the start of the story have personality - especially the young and naughty calf, Bright. From Peat's sister and aunt, through to the stranger, the sleek, the swamp auntie, Mother Moss, the Siltman and his dogs, and finally Siltboy and Shadow, each of the characters has a part to play, and they play it well.
This is a quest novel with a difference. There are no treasures to be found, no dire enemies to defeat, no thrones to reclaim - other than the treasure of love kept strong in a heart; the defeat of death; and the kingdom of family to reclaim.
Song for a Scarlet Runner is a celebration and warning of the power of words. What they can give, and what they can take away. Magical.
by Julie Hunt
Pick up Sydenham 3037
Post $2.20
Excellent condition
A really wonderful fantasy-journey-adventure novel for middle-grade readers. So inventive and beautifully executed.
Peat is on the run — forced to flee for her life when she's blamed for bringing bad luck to her village. She heads for the endless marshes, where she's caught by an old healer-woman who makes Peat her apprentice and teaches her the skill of storytelling.
But a story can be a dangerous thing. It can take you out of one world and leave you stranded in another — and Peat finds herself trapped in an eerie place beyond the Silver River where time stands still. Her only friends are a 900-year-old boy and his ghost hound, plus a small and slippery sleek — a cunning creature that might sink his teeth into your leg one minute, and save your life the next.
Oh, oh, oh. Peat is wonderful! Strong, yet cautious; brave, but fearful; selfish but also full of compassion for the lost, the old and the imprisoned. She is feisty, free and faithful. And she is totally up for the adventure that unfolds in the page of Song for a Scarlet Runner.
The supporting cast is well written, too, even the cows that Peat cares for at the start of the story have personality - especially the young and naughty calf, Bright. From Peat's sister and aunt, through to the stranger, the sleek, the swamp auntie, Mother Moss, the Siltman and his dogs, and finally Siltboy and Shadow, each of the characters has a part to play, and they play it well.
This is a quest novel with a difference. There are no treasures to be found, no dire enemies to defeat, no thrones to reclaim - other than the treasure of love kept strong in a heart; the defeat of death; and the kingdom of family to reclaim.
Song for a Scarlet Runner is a celebration and warning of the power of words. What they can give, and what they can take away. Magical.
- Date Listed:28/11/2020
- Last Edited:11/06/2022
- Condition:Used
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