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A string in the harp / [by Nancy Bond].

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2006, c1976.Edition: 2nd Aladdin Paperbacks edDescription: 370 p. : ill., map ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 1416927719
  • 9781416927716
Subject(s):
  • Newbery honor book.
Summary: Relates what happens to three American children, unwillingly transplanted to Wales for one year, when one of them finds an ancient harp-tuning key that takes him back to the time of the great sixth-century bard Taliesin.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Science Fiction/Fantasy Bond, Nancy Available 33111005036377
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A family in mourning...an ancient bard...a harp key that brings them together...

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.

"A Margaret K. McElderry book."

Author from cover.

Includes a Reader's guide for book clubs, teachers, and students.

Originally issued: New York : Atheneum, 1976.

Relates what happens to three American children, unwillingly transplanted to Wales for one year, when one of them finds an ancient harp-tuning key that takes him back to the time of the great sixth-century bard Taliesin.

Newbery honor book.

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