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Gifts

Gifts

Le Guin, Ursula K.

Hardcover

Series: Annals of the Western Shore

General Juvenile Fiction

ISBN10: 0152051236
ISBN13: 9780152051235
Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.94 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
Awards: Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award, Locus Awards, Parents Choice Award (Fall) (1998-2007), Tayshas Reading
Scattered among poor, desolate farms, the clans of the Uplands possess gifts. Wondrous gifts: the ability--with a glance, a gesture, a word--to 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 world's darkness, gifts of light.

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