The beast player
题名:
The beast player
著者:
Uehashi, Nahoko.
Onoda, Yuta.
Hirano, Cathy.
ISBN:
9781250307460
版:
First American hardcover edition.
出版信息:
New York : Godwinbooks/Henry Holt and Company, 2019.
规格:
344 p. : ill., genealogical table ; 24 cm
摘要:
Nahoko Uehashi's The Beast Player is an epic YA fantasy about a girl with a special power to communicate with magical beasts and the warring kingdom only she can save.
Erin's family cares for the fearsome water serpents that form the core of their kingdom's army. When some of the beasts mysteriously die, Elin's mother is sentenced to death as punishment. With her last breath she manages to send her daughter to safety. Alone, far from home, Elin discovers that she can talk to both the terrifying water serpents and the majestic flying beasts that guard her queen. This skill involves her in deadly plots that could cost her life. Can she save herself and prevent her beloved beasts from being used as tools of war?
LANGUAGE_546:
Translated from the Japanese.
主题:
| Magic -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Animals, Mythical -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Imaginary wars and battles -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Serpents -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Kings and rulers -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Young adult fiction. |
| Fantasy fiction. |
摘要:
Nahoko Uehashi's The Beast Player is an epic YA fantasy about a girl with a special power to communicate with magical beasts and the warring kingdom only she can save.
Erin's family cares for the fearsome water serpents that form the core of their kingdom's army. When some of the beasts mysteriously die, Elin's mother is sentenced to death as punishment. With her last breath she manages to send her daughter to safety. Alone, far from home, Elin discovers that she can talk to both the terrifying water serpents and the majestic flying beasts that guard her queen. This skill involves her in deadly plots that could cost her life. Can she save herself and prevent her beloved beasts from being used as tools of war?