The Girl with the Blade of Bone - by Adam B Ford (Hardcover)

About the Book

A fantasy story about the tales and legends of a protector of a seaside village-a small girl with a blade of bone.

Book Synopsis

Every town needs a hero, and the seaside village of Tanaby has one, told in tales and songs and legends. Her stories are told and retold, embellished and misremembered. Some say they're all true, some scoff at that, but all the townsfolk agree that something or someone looks over them-a ghost, a whisper, a fleeting memory in the dark. Sometimes it's a mighty warrior, sometimes a clever lass with a gleam in her eye, always quick, always alert, her faithful dog Kaze by her side. Maybe it's all myths, but there's always someone who says that they've seen her, cloaked in gray, standing guard on the bluffs overlooking the town on the stormiest nights or flitting through the woods and fields or melting into the shadows of Tanaby. Everyone has a story, and everyone knows that at some time long ago that story was the tale of Nelaka, the girl with the blade of bone.

Review Quotes

Adam B. Ford writes with the warm, unhurried confidence of a born storyteller. He trusts his young readers with complexity, earns the emotional payoff, and leaves them with a heroine worth believing in. The nested narrative structure-Nini's bedtime stories folding in and out of the real-world tension of an approaching army-is well handled, and the gradual revelation at the heart of the book lands with genuine emotional weight. The prose has a lovely oral quality, rich with rhythm and repetition that makes it as well-suited to reading aloud as to independent reading.

-The Children's Book Review