A String in the Harp
1st Edition
Published on 19. June 2012
160 pages
978-1-4424-6594-7 (ISBN)
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A family in mourning...an ancient bard... and a harp key that brings them together.
When fifteen-year-old Jen Morgan flies to Wales to spend Christmas with her family, she's not expecting much from the holiday. A year after her mother's sudden death, her father seems preoccupied by the teaching job that has brought him and Jen's younger siblings to Wales for the year. Her brother, Peter, is alternately hostile and sullen,and her sister, Becky, misses Jen terribly.
Then Peter tells Jen he's found a strange artifact, a harp key that shows him pictures from the life of Taliesin, the great bard whose life in sixth-century Wales has been immortalized in legend. At first Jen doesn't believe him, but when the key's existence -- and its strange properties -- become known to the wider world, the Morgans must act together against a threat to the key...and to their family.
When fifteen-year-old Jen Morgan flies to Wales to spend Christmas with her family, she's not expecting much from the holiday. A year after her mother's sudden death, her father seems preoccupied by the teaching job that has brought him and Jen's younger siblings to Wales for the year. Her brother, Peter, is alternately hostile and sullen,and her sister, Becky, misses Jen terribly.
Then Peter tells Jen he's found a strange artifact, a harp key that shows him pictures from the life of Taliesin, the great bard whose life in sixth-century Wales has been immortalized in legend. At first Jen doesn't believe him, but when the key's existence -- and its strange properties -- become known to the wider world, the Morgans must act together against a threat to the key...and to their family.
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Nancy Bond is the author of a number of books for young readers, including The Voyage Begun, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book; A Place to Come Back To, an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults and a Booklist Editor's Choice; and Truth to Tell. She wrote after attending library school in a Welsh town outside of Aberstwyth, the book's setting. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts.
Content
- Intro
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Chapter 1: Borth
- Chapter 2: Taliesin
- Chapter 3: Storm and Flood
- Chapter 4: To Llechwedd Melyn
- Chapter 5: A Not So Very Merry Christmas
- Chapter 6: Beside The Dovey
- Chapter 7: A Harp Key
- Chapter 8: Jen Argues
- Chapter 9: The Battle of Cors Fochno
- Chapter 10: Dr. Rhys
- Chapter 11: Roast Chicken And Mashed Potatoes
- Chapter 12: Cardiff
- Chapter 13: Wolf!
- Chapter 14: A Birthday Expedition
- Chapter 15: Dinner Party
- Chapter 16: A Homecoming
- Chapter 17: Cannwyl Corph
- Chapter 18: Giving It Back
- Chapter 19: Family Decision
- Author's Note
- Reading Group Guide
