The Kestrel Lloyd Alexander
Publisher: Puffin Books
ISBN: 0141310693
Edition: Mass Market Paperback; 2002-06-01
Summary:
Theo is traveling Westmark, learning about the country of which he
will soon be Prince Consort. He is not surprised to find great
poverty-Mickle (now known as Princess Augusta) could have told him
that from her years on the street. His friend Florian could have told
him about the aristocracy's graft and corruption. But neither could
have foreseen a loaded pistol in the practiced hand of the assassin
Skeit. The echoes of that shot ring from the muskets and cannons of a
Westmark suddenly at war-a war that turns simple, honest men into
cold-blooded killers, Mickle into a military commander, and Theo
himself into a stranger. . . . "The plot is magnificent, the
characterizations are excellent, and the issues are compelling."
(Children's Literature)
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