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Gifts

Part of the Annals of the Western shore series
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Scattered among poor, desolate farms, the clans of the Uplands possess gifts. Wondrous gifts: the abilitywith a glance, a gesture, a wordto 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 worlds darkness, gifts of light.

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Product Details
Hmh Books for Young Readers
0152051236 / 9780152051235
Hardback
01/09/2004
United States
288 pages
140 x 210 mm, 408 grams
Quiz No: 207893, Points 9.00, Book Level 5.60,
Upper Years - Key Stage 3 Learn More