The Safe-Keeper's Secret (Safe Keepers Series #1)

by Sharon Shinn

Overview

The Safe-Keeper's Secret is a journey into a vibrantly crafted fantasy world, overflowing with questions of truth and self-discovery. 

Damiana is safe-keeper in the small village of Tambleham. Neighbors and strangers alike come one by one, in secret, to tell her things they dare not share with anyone else, knowing that Damiana will keep then to herself. One late night, a mysterious visitor from the city arrives with an unusual secret for the Safe-Keeper—a newborn baby. Damiana, who is expecting her own child, agrees to take the foundling. She names him Reed and raises him side by side with her daughter, Fiona. And the years pass and the two children grow into teenagers, they must come to terms with who they are—and who they may be.

"The most promising and original writer of fantasy to come along since Robin McKinley."—Peter S. Beagle, best-selling author of The Last Unicorm

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780142403570
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	11/03/2005
Series:	Safe Keepers Series , #1
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	4.28(w) x 6.95(h) x 0.66(d)
Age Range:	12 - 16 Years

About the Author

Sharon Shinn (www.sharonshinn.net) had won the William C. Crawford Award for Outstanding New Fantasy Writer, and was twice nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her sequence of Samaria novels have been Locus best-sellers, and her novel Summers at Castle Auburn was named an ALA Best Books for Young Adults. Sharon graduated from Northwestern University and has lived in the Midwest most of her life.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for The Safe-Keeper's Secret

"Teens will connect with Shinn's vividly drawn fantasy world as well as her provocative questions about truth, justice, and individual destiny."—Booklist

"The most promising and original writer of fantasy to come along since Robin McKinley."—Peter S. Beagle, best-selling author of The Last Unicorn
 

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