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My Swordhand is Singing
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My Swordhand is Singing (2006) (edit title/settings)

by Marcus Sedgwick (Author) (edit contributors)

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WHEN TOMAS AND HIS SON, Peter, settle in Chust as woodcutters, Tomas digs a channel of fast-flowing waters around their hut, so they have their own little island kingdom. Peter doesn't understand why his father has done this, nor why his father carries a long, battered box, whose mysterious... read more

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Eastern Europe - early seventeenth century
  • Chust: A rural town of about 200 people where the book takes place.

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There is a land beyond the forests.

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Introduction: The Song
1. Deep in the Woods
2. Slivovitz and Snow
3. The Suicide's Burial
4. The Goose
5. St. Andrew's Eve
6. The Dulcimer's Melody
7. Sheep and Wolves
8. The Shadow Queen
9. The Eternal Return
10. Refusal
11. Visitors
12. Closer
13. And Closer
14. Creeping
15. The Waters of Chust
16. Agnes
17. The Wedding of the Dead
18. At the Threshold
19. Turnings
20. Hands in the Dark
21. Threads
22. Calling
23. Things to Cover Our Dead
24. The Hut
25. The Winter King
26. Escape
27. The Island
28. The Dream of the Queen
29. Ancestors and Hostages
30. The Elders
31. Village Talk
32. Stillness
33. Tomas
34. The Camp
35. The Approach
36. Ordeal
37. The Sword
38. The Song of the Miorita
39. Resurrection
40. A Perfect Shade of Green
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  1. Marcus Sedgwick (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Orion Childrens; Mass Market Paperback edition
Country: Great Britain
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 978-1842555583
Page Count: 240

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