Grayling's Song

Name: Grayling's Song
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Karen Cushman
ISBN: 9781501926679

Author: Karen Cushman

Narrator: Katherine Kellgren

Unabridged: 5 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/07/2016

Categories: Children's Fiction, Action & Adventure Stories, Fantasy Stories, Historical Stories

Synopsis

It's time for Grayling to be a hero. Her mother, a "wise woman"-a sort of witch-has been turned into a tree by evil forces. Tangles and toadstools! Lacking confidence after years of being called "Feeble Wits" by her mother, Grayling heads off dubiously into the wilds in search of help, where she finds a weather witch, an aromatic enchantress, a cheese soothsayer, a slyly foolish apprentice, and a shape-shifting mouse named Pook!

About Karen Cushman

Karen Cushman's acclaimed historical novels include Catherine, Called Birdy, a Newbery Honor winner, and The Midwife's Apprentice, which received the Newbery Medal. She lives on Vashon Island in Washington State. Visit her online at karencushman.com and on Twitter @cushmanbooks.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ivonne

Karen Cushman, author of the Newbery Honor book Catherine, Called Birdy and Newbery Medal winner The Midwife's Apprentice, has a penned another prize-winner with Grayling’s Song. While those two — and most of her other books — are set in a historical medieval or Elizabethan England, Grayling’s Song......more

Goodreads review by Amira

Grayling started up as nothing like the most of us. Having no power, no skills she ever know and only the fear that her mother will be forever rooted to the ground, she sets out on an adventure into the unknown. Grayling is such a courageous and kind hearted girl. She's been pushed to her limit, try......more