Readers of the Round Table Read Gifts for February 16th
Copies of the book are available in the Teen Area on the upper level of the library.
Need a ride? Campbell High School students can take the late bus from school to the library.
About the Book
Scattered among poor, desolate
farms, the clans of the Uplands possess gifts. Wondrous gifts: the
ability—with a glance, a gesture, a word—to summon animals, bring forth
fire, move the land. Fearsome gifts: They can twist a limb, chain a
mind, inflict a wasting illness. The Uplanders live in constant fear
that one family might unleash its gift against another. Two young
people, friends since childhood, decide not to use their gifts. One, a
girl, refuses to bring animals to their death in the hunt. The other, a
boy, wears a blindfold lest his eyes and his anger kill.
In this beautifully crafted
story, Ursula K. Le Guin writes of the proud cruelty of power, of how
hard it is to grow up, and of how much harder still it is to find, in
the world's darkness, gifts of light.
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