A String in the Harp (HARDBACK IN DJ)

Bond, Nancy

ISBN 10: 068950036X / ISBN 13: 9780689500367

Published by Margaret K McElderry/ Atheneum, NY, 1976

About this Item

1977 NEWBERY HONOR. 1ST ED, 6TH PRT. Small remainder dot on bottom edge & gift inscription to prior owner opposite title page, otherwise "as new".

Seller Inventory # 004781

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A String in the Harp (HARDBACK IN DJ)
• Publisher: Margaret K McElderry/ Atheneum, NY
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 068950036X
• ISBN 13: 9780689500367
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 5th or later Printin
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine DJ

About this title

Synopsis

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.

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.