Ghost Song (Ghost World Sequence) - Softcover

Price, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 099282043X ISBN 13: 9780992820435

Publisher: PriceClan, 2014

Synopsis

‘Only Change is Everlasting.’

White midnight, the endless Midsummer Night of the far north. Malyuta, a slave and hunter stands on watch over his new-born son.

Then comes Kuzma, the bear shaman, and demands the baby for his apprentice.

Throughout the long white night the hunter resists every argument, every bribe, every threat, refusing to give up his son. "I am not a czar, to buy and sell my children!”

Thwarted, the bear-shaman takes his revenge on a family of reindeer-people. When they, too, refuse him a child, he curses them with ‘everlasting change.’ By day they will have their own shapes; by night, they will be wolves. In the far north, the night is six months long.

Malyuta, the hunter, struggling to raise his adored child, slowly learns that the bear-shaman is still with them, walking in the boy’s dreams... And soon Kuzma demands that the boy fulfil his destiny by becoming a shaman – even if it means leaving all that he knows and loves.

Book 2 of the Ghost World Sequence.

About this title

About the Author:

Susan Price gained her first publishing contract at the age of 16, with Faber and Faber.

She won the Carnegie Medal, for The Ghost Drum, and the Guardian Fiction Prize for The Sterkarm Handshake. Besides Faber, her publishers include Hodder, Scholastic, Puffin, Simon & Schuster, A & C Black and Corgi, among others.

She began self-publishing in 2011, enabling her to supply demand for her OOP books, such as Ghost Drum and The Wolf’s Footprint. In 2016, she published her first original self-published title, The Drover’s Dogs.

Her first two Sterkarm novels are soon to be republished, with a new novel, A Sterkarm Tryst, by e-publishers Open Road.

She is a co-founder of the Authors Electric blog, where 29 self-publishing authors post each month.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 4-6-- Life is a sequence of choices and consequences. In Ghost Drum (Farrar, 1987) , a slave woman choses to give up her baby daughter to a shaman so that the child could live free. In this companion novel, a young father, faced with the same choice, refuses to give up his new born son. The offended shaman, Kuzma, the only character to carry over from the first book, vows revenge, and so a tragic sequence of events is set into motion. Kuzma's anger is directed not only at Malyuta and his son, Ambrosi, but also at a nomadic tribe who follow the reindeer. This tribe is visited by Kuzma, and although they welcome him and treat him with respect, he curses them and changes them all into werewolves. To break the spell and save the tribe, one of them must serve Kuzma, and help him to steal Ambrosi away from his fiercely protective father. Like the previous book, this one has the feel and flavor of old folktales, specifically those from northern Europe. There is a purity and a beauty to the language; every word, every phrase, is perfectly placed, like an exquisite ice sculpture. This is a must for libraries that own Ghost Drum , and even for those that don't. --Susan M. Harding, Mesquite Public Library, TX
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About this edition

• Publisher: PriceClan
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 099282043X
• ISBN 13: 9780992820435
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 121