A String in the Harp

by Nancy Bond

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780689500367
Publisher:	Margaret K. McElderry Books
Publication date:	01/01/1976
Edition description:	1st ed
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	716,433
Product dimensions:	5.62(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.10(d)
Lexile:	810L (what's this?)
Age Range:	10 - 14 Years

About the Author

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.

Editorial Reviews

"A most impressive first novel...deftly blends fantasy and realism."

— Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred review

"A substantial achievement"

— Horn Book

From the Publisher

"Readers will brook no interruption once they become immersed in the sustained magic" of this 1977 Newbery Honor Book about a boy who travels back in time to the 1500s, said PW. Ages 10-14. (Mar.)

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