The Land of the Silver Apples
by:
Nancy Farmer (author)
Sometimes magic doesn't always do what one intends...especially when one is a bard-in-training. A New York Times bestseller.
Sometimes magic doesn't always do what one intends...especially when one is a bard-in-training. A New York Times bestseller.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781416907367 (141690736X)
Publish date: August 25th 2009
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 528
Edition language: English
Series: Sea of Trolls (#2)
Jack ha cumplido 13 años, sigue entrenando bajo el viejo Bardo, y su padre sigue brindandole todos sus caprichos a su hermanita Lucy. Sin embargo un cambio se acerca a sus vidas en medio de una ceremonia sagrada de encender el fuego en la noche más larga del año, y algunos secretos son revelados.Jac...
Young bard Jack is back, with Thorgil the shield-maiden, and new companions including Pega, a freed slave. This time there's elves, hobgoblins, scary monks and okay monks, Picts, and kelpies. For reals, people! If you like your YA fantasy full of earth-loving anti-slavery young people who eshew trad...
The boys would give it 3 to 3.5 stars. I just felt it was largely a re-hash of the first book. Nonetheless, the boys enjoyed it, and as my youngest said "any book with Thorgil in it is a good book."
This was not actually any less well written than the first volume, but she ruined the story for me by making Lucy a heartless elf. Plus, things were just getting plain difficult to keep interested in at all.
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