Del ReyProduct DescriptionWINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL " Naomi Novik author of the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed Temeraire novels introduces a bold new world rooted in folk stories and legends as elemental as a Grimm fairy tale.
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Uprooted is confidently wrought and sympathetically cast. I might even call it bewitching.Gregory Maguire bestselling author of Wicked and Egg & Spoon
Our Dragon doesnt 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 thats not true: he may be a wizard and immortal but hes 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 were 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 knows?everyone knows?that 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