Article: Marcus Sedgwick The Dark Horse.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)

218 pp. Lamb/Random 2/03 ISBN 0-385-73054-3 15.95 g Library edition ISBN 0-385-90091-0 17.99 (Middle School, High School)

Setting: prehistoric, mythic, resembling Scotland's Hebrides. Characters: the members of two tribes--the "Storn," settled in their village and their ways but recently bedeviled by harsh weather, a diminishing catch, and crop failures; and the fierce, nomadic "Dark Horse." Central to the action are the Storn boy Sigurd, whose account alternates with that of an omniscient narrator; and his adopted sister, "Mouse," raised by wolves and possessed of strange powers. Mouse sends her mind forth with the birds to find what is lost; only she can open ...

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