### From School Library Journal *Starred Review.* Grade 7 UpThe year Memer was born, a foreign army overthrew her city's elected government, declared the written word demonic, and destroyed every book it could find. Seventeen years later, possession of books is still punishable by death, and Memer
Voices (Annals of the Western Shore Book 2)
β Scribed by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 133 KB
- Series
- Annals of the Western Shore 2
- Edition
- 1st Harcourt pbk. ed
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Orlando
- ISBN
- 0547546335
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β¦ Synopsis
Young Memer takes on a pivotal role in freeing her war-torn homeland from its oppressive captors.
β¦ Subjects
JUVENILE FICTION -- Fantasy & Magic
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