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The Safe-Keeper's Secret Mass market paperback - 2005
by Shinn, Sharon (Author)
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- Title The Safe-Keeper's Secret
- Author Shinn, Sharon (Author)
- Binding Mass Market Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Firebird, U.S.A.
- Date 2005
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1-0142403571
- ISBN 9780142403570 / 0142403571
- Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 7.1 x 4.36 x 0.57 in (18.03 x 11.07 x 1.45 cm)
- Ages 12 to UP years
- Grade levels 7 - UP
- Reading level 860
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Library of Congress subjects Villages, Secrecy
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
"The most promising and original writer of fantasy to come along since Robin McKinley."Peter S. Beagle, best-selling author of The Last Unicorm
Damiana is safe-keeper in the small village of Tambleham. Neighbors and strangers alike come one by one, in secret, to tell her things they dare not share with anyone else, knowing that Damiana will keep then to herself. One late night, a mysterious visitor from the city arrives with an unusual secret for the Safe-Keepera newborn baby. Damiana, who is expecting her own child, agrees to take the foundling. She names him Reed and raises him side by side with her daughter, Fiona. Ad the years pass and the two children grow into teenagers, they must come to terms with who they areand who they may be.
Damiana is safe-keeper in the small village of Tambleham. Neighbors and strangers alike come one by one, in secret, to tell her things they dare not share with anyone else, knowing that Damiana will keep then to herself. One late night, a mysterious visitor from the city arrives with an unusual secret for the Safe-Keepera newborn baby. Damiana, who is expecting her own child, agrees to take the foundling. She names him Reed and raises him side by side with her daughter, Fiona. Ad the years pass and the two children grow into teenagers, they must come to terms with who they areand who they may be.
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Fiona had assigned names to all her dolls, and she was arranging them by how much she loved each of the people those dolls represented.