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The Kestrel

By Lloyd Alexander

Book information

Publisher
Firebird
Year
2002
ISBN
0141310693, 9780141310695
Open Library ID
OL7359553M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
744 kB (761572 bytes)
Edition
Reissue
Pages
210\210
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Theo is traveling Westmark, learning about the country of which he will soon be Prince Consort. He is not surprised to find great poverty-Mickle (now known as Princess Augusta) could have told him that from her years on the street. His friend Florian could have told him about the aristocracy's graft and corruption. But neither could have foreseen a loaded pistol in the practiced hand of the assassin Skeit. The echoes of that shot ring from the muskets and cannons of a Westmark suddenly at war-a war that turns simple, honest men into cold-blooded killers, Mickle into a military commander, and Theo himself into a stranger. . . . "The plot is magnificent, the characterizations are excellent, and the issues are compelling."(Children's Literature)

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