Summary
A boy destined to lead his clan; a girl raised by wolves; a stranger with a sealed box. These are the elements of this powerful novel, set on a rocky northern coast in a distant time, in a small community who lives in dread of the coming of the legendary warrior tribe, the Dark Horse. Told in part by the boy, Sigurd, himself, it is a dark and dangerous story of conflict and betrayal.
With its strong sense of time and place and the magic of a primitive people, THE DARK HORSE again conf…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781858818849 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1858818842 |
| Author: | Marcus Sedgwick |
| Publisher: | Hachette Children's Group |
| Imprint: | Orion Children's Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2003 |
| Weight: | 172g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 136mm x 197mm |
| Audience Age: | 9-11 |
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‘imaginative and gripping’ – Becca Pennicott THANET FOCUS
Marcus Sedgwick
Marcus Sedgwick is a full time author. His first novel, Floodland, won the Branford Boase Award for the best debut children’s novel of 2000. Since then his books have been shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award, the Costa Book Award, the Carnegie Medal and the Edgar Allan Poe Award. He lives near Cambridge.
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