Book of a Thousand Days (Hardcover)

By Shannon Hale
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Description

When Dashti, a maid, and Lady Saren, her mistress, are shut in a tower for seven years for Saren’s refusal to marry a man she despises, the two prepare for a very long and dark imprisonment.
    As food runs low and the days go from broiling hot to freezing cold, it is all Dashti can do to keep them fed and comfortable. But the arrival outside the tower of Saren’s two suitors—one welcome, and the other decidedly less so—brings both hope and great danger, and Dashti must make the desperate choices of a girl whose life is worth more than she knows.
    With Shannon Hale’s lyrical language, this forgotten but classic fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm is reimagined and reset on the central Asian steppes; it is a completely unique retelling filled with adventure and romance, drama and disguise.

About the Author

Shannon Hale is the Newbery Honor–winning author of Princess Academy as well as the highly acclaimed and award-winning Books of Bayern: Goose Girl, Enna Burning, and River Secrets. She has written a novel for adults, Austenland, and is working on a graphic novel, Rapunzel’s Revenge. She lives with her husband and two young children in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Product Details ISBN-10: 1599900513
ISBN-13: 9781599900513
Published: Bloomsbury USA Children's Books, 09/18/2007
Pages: 320
Language: English
Recommended Reading Level Minimum Age: 12
Maximum Age: 17
Minimum Grade Level: 7th Grade
Maximum Grade Level: 12th Grade