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1 online resource (1 audio file) |
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audio file rda |
| Summary |
Naomi Novik, author of the New York Timesbestselling and critically acclaimed Temeraire novels, introduces a bold new world rooted in folk stories and legends, as elemental as a Grimm fairy tale. "Uprooted is confidently wrought and sympathetically cast. I might even call it bewitching."Gregory Maguire, bestselling author of Wicked and Egg & Spoon "Our Dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. Of course that's not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he's still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years. He protects us against the Wood, and we're grateful, but not that grateful." Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life. Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood. The next choosing is fast approaching, and Agnieszka is afraid. She knowseveryone knowsthat the Dragon will take Kasia: beautiful, graceful, brave Kasia, all the things Agnieszka isn't, and her dearest friend in the world. And there is no way to save her. But Agnieszka fears the wrong things. For when the Dragon comes, it is not Kasia he will choose. |
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960L Lexile |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader UG 6.6 26 193822 |
| Note |
Downloadable audio file. |
| Performer |
Narrator: Julia Emelin. |
| Summary |
A tale inspired by the "Beauty and the Beast" story follows the experiences of Agnieszka, who becomes the latest girl chosen to serve an immortal wizard who protects their village from the malevolent forces of a nearby forest. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
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Wizards -- Fiction.
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Immortalism -- Fiction.
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Indentured servants -- Fiction.
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Female friendship -- Fiction.
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Good and evil -- Fiction.
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Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.
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Magic -- Fiction.
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Female friendship. |
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Folklore. |
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Good and evil. |
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Identity (Psychology) |
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Immortalism. |
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Indentured servants. |
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Magic. |
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Wizards. |
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Poland -- Folklore -- Adaptations.
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Poland. |
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Audiobooks.
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Fantasy fiction.
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Downloadable audio books. |
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Adaptations.
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Audiobooks.
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Fantasy fiction.
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Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Emelin, Julia, narrator.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Novik, Naomi. Uprooted New York : Random House Audio, [2015] (OCoLC)910442811 |
| ISBN |
9780553410099 : $95.00 |
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0553410091 : $95.00 |
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