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The sunbird

Author: Elizabeth Wein
Publisher: New York : Viking, ©2004.
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
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When, in the sixth century, plague spreads from Britain to Aksum, young Telemakos travels to the kingdom's salt mines to discover the identity of the traitor to the crown who, ignoring the emperor's command, is spreading plague with the salt from port to port.
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Genre/Form: Fiction
Juvenile works
Juvenile fiction
Material Type: Fiction, Juvenile audience, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Elizabeth Wein
ISBN: 0670036919 9780670036912
OCLC Number: 53170164
Notes: Sequel to: A coalition of lions.
Sequel: The lion hunter.
Description: 184 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Contents: Salt traders --
Invisible people --
Caracal --
Doves for the poor --
In the lion's den --
Goewin and her brothers --
Dogfight --
Abraham and Isaac --
Telemakos alone --
Lazarus --
Light and water --
Santaraj --
Harrier stricken --
Odysseus bends his bow.
Responsibility: Elizabeth E. Wein.
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When, in the sixth century, plague spreads from Britain to Aksum, young Telemakos travels to the kingdom's salt mines to discover the identity of the traitor to the crown who, ignoring the emperor's command, is spreading plague with the salt from port to port.

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