**Arya from _Game of Thrones_ meets an Outlander setting in this middle-grade debut about a fierce girl who attempts to rescue her family from a castle prison with only the help of an injured enemy knight.** **In this gorgeously wrought, action-filled, medieval adventure, a resourceful girl and an
The Mad Wolf's Daughter
β Scribed by Magras, Diane
- Book ID
- 109937533
- Publisher
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780735229266
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β¦ Synopsis
Arya from Game of Thrones meets an Outlander setting in this middle-grade debut about a fierce girl who attempts to rescue her family from a castle prison with only the help of an injured enemy knight.
In this gorgeously wrought, action-filled, medieval adventure, a resourceful girl and an injured enemy knight must rescue her family from his castle's prison.
One dark night, Drest's sheltered life on a remote Scottish headland is shattered when invading knights capture her family, but leave Drest behind. Her father, the Mad Wolf of the North, and her beloved brothers are a fearsome war-band, but now Drest is the only one who can save them. So she starts off on a wild rescue attempt, taking a wounded invader along as a hostage.
Hunted by a bandit with a dark link to her family's past, aided by a witch whom she rescues from the stake, Drest travels through unwelcoming villages, desolate forests, and haunted towns. Every time she's faced with a...
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