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Song for a scarlet runner

Peat is on the run - forced to flee for her life when she's blamed for bringing bad luck to her village. She heads for the endless marshes, where she's caught by an old healer-woman who makes Peat her apprentice and teaches her the skill of storytelling. But a story can be a dangerous thing. It can...

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Main Author: Hunt, Julie, 1958-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Sydney : Allen & Unwin Academic, 2015.
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Storytelling > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:Peat is on the run - forced to flee for her life when she's blamed for bringing bad luck to her village. She heads for the endless marshes, where she's caught by an old healer-woman who makes Peat her apprentice and teaches her the skill of storytelling. But a story can be a dangerous thing. It can take you out of one world and leave you stranded in another - and Peat finds herself trapped in an eerie place beyond the Silver River where time stands still. Her only friends are a 900-year-old boy and his ghost hound, plus a small and slippery sleek - a cunning creature that might sink his teeth into your leg one minute, and save your life the next.
Physical Description:315 p.
ISBN:9781743313589
1743313586
Author Notes:Julia Hunt is an Australian author, born in 1958. She enjoys traveling and building. Both serve as a source for ideas for her writing. Her work includes Song for a Scarlet Runner which won the Readings inaugural Children's Book Prize, the Little Else series (illustrated by Beth Norling) which won the CBCA Picture Book of the Year, The Coat (illustrated by Ron Brooks), Precious Little (written with Sue Moss and illustrated by Gaye Chapman) and KidGlovz (Illustrated by Dale Newman) which won of the 2016 Queensland Literary Awards, Children's category.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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