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CBC Showcase: From the Ancient World
Sutcliff's "descriptive language and dialogue transport readers back to a time and place not usually visited in young people's fiction." —Booklist
by Rosemary Sutcliff
Discovered among Rosemary Sutcliff's papers after her death in 1992, Sword Song is the swashbuckling epic of a young Viking swordsman, sixteen-year-old Bjarni Sigurdson, who is banished from his home for unintentionally killing a man and takes up a new life as a mercenary. He teams up with Ornund Treefoot and becomes involved in bitter feuds among clan chiefs on the west coast of Scotland, returning home five years later, ready to claim what is his.
Ages 10 up
ISBN: 0-374-46984-9
Price: $6.95 (Paperback)
Publisher: Sunburst Paperbacks/Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers
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