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Editorial Reviews
From School Library Journal
Grade 6-8-A complex fantasy that has its inspiration in the Cherokee culture of western North Carolina. When Adanta's sick father goes on a quest to find a healing lake, a visitor, the Lean One, comes to their home and lures her mother away, where she may have fallen prey to Raven Mockers, who steal a victim's heart and eat it. Alone, Adanta sets out to try to find her parents, journeying from her cottage to Adantis, a secret home of the Hidden People, who are a mixture of Irish, Scots, and Cherokee. The book follows Adanta through trials as she meets a variety of characters who have special powers of transformation from one form to another as well as people living in the depths of the Great Smoky Mountains where cultures blend and the lines of reality and fantasy blur. Among them is Pony Boy, who travels with Adanta some of the time; her grandmother; and families she meets in the hidden world of Adantis. There are a lot of good, exciting characters and events-people being stolen, men changed into other creatures-but the intricate plot has many side steps that can be difficult to keep straight, and it will take an excellent reader to keep them all sorted out. In the end, the story cannot quite stand up to the weight of all the characters and all that is going on in it.
Jane G. Connor, South Carolina State Library, Columbia
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From Booklist
Gr. 5-8. Set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee, this fantasy draws on Cherokee legends and the culture of the region's European settlers. After young Adanta's father falls ill, he leaves their solitary cottage to search for Atagahi, the secret, sacred healing lake of legend. Seven weeks later, Adanta's mother is enchanted and lured into the Smoky Mountain home of the Adantans, the Hidden People of mixed Irish, Scots, and Cherokee ancestry. Adanta's quest to save her parents leads her deep into the mountains, where she finds a land she had known only through her father's tales. She encounters shape-shifting witches and wizards called raven mockers, fairylike little people, and the powerful Immortals as well as a number of memorable human characters. In a detailed glossary, Youmans explains unfamiliar terms and concepts. Genre fans who have lamented the lack of high fantasy with a truly American setting will welcome this original, imaginative story with its well-researched background. Carolyn Phelan
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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Grade 6-8-A complex fantasy that has its inspiration in the Cherokee culture of western North Carolina. When Adanta's sick father goes on a quest to find a healing lake, a visitor, the Lean One, comes to their home and lures her mother away, where she may have fallen prey to Raven Mockers, who steal a victim's heart and eat it. Alone, Adanta sets out to try to find her parents, journeying from her cottage to Adantis, a secret home of the Hidden People, who are a mixture of Irish, Scots, and Cherokee. The book follows Adanta through trials as she meets a variety of characters who have special powers of transformation from one form to another as well as people living in the depths of the Great Smoky Mountains where cultures blend and the lines of reality and fantasy blur. Among them is Pony Boy, who travels with Adanta some of the time; her grandmother; and families she meets in the hidden world of Adantis. There are a lot of good, exciting characters and events-people being stolen, men changed into other creatures-but the intricate plot has many side steps that can be difficult to keep straight, and it will take an excellent reader to keep them all sorted out. In the end, the story cannot quite stand up to the weight of all the characters and all that is going on in it.
Jane G. Connor, South Carolina State Library, Columbia
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist
Gr. 5-8. Set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee, this fantasy draws on Cherokee legends and the culture of the region's European settlers. After young Adanta's father falls ill, he leaves their solitary cottage to search for Atagahi, the secret, sacred healing lake of legend. Seven weeks later, Adanta's mother is enchanted and lured into the Smoky Mountain home of the Adantans, the Hidden People of mixed Irish, Scots, and Cherokee ancestry. Adanta's quest to save her parents leads her deep into the mountains, where she finds a land she had known only through her father's tales. She encounters shape-shifting witches and wizards called raven mockers, fairylike little people, and the powerful Immortals as well as a number of memorable human characters. In a detailed glossary, Youmans explains unfamiliar terms and concepts. Genre fans who have lamented the lack of high fantasy with a truly American setting will welcome this original, imaginative story with its well-researched background. Carolyn Phelan
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
See all Editorial Reviews
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Under the great folds of the mountains that are known as the Blue Ridge because they are often the color of twilight-and that are in places called the Smokies because they send up a blue fume into the sky-there is a spot that is still almost unsettled, a cove with only a few lawns notched in its slopes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lean One, Magpie Joe, Birdie Ann, White Brow, Pony Fair, Pony Boy, Little Cottage, Mossy Creek, Little People, Corn Woman, Teller of Wonders, Talatu Place, Yunwi Tsunsdi, Hidden People, Red Betty, Harlan Messer, Miss Birdie, Civil War New!
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Front Cover | Copyright |
Under the great folds of the mountains that are known as the Blue Ridge because they are often the color of twilight-and that are in places called the Smokies because they send up a blue fume into the sky-there is a spot that is still almost unsettled, a cove with only a few lawns notched in its slopes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lean One, Magpie Joe, Birdie Ann, White Brow, Pony Fair, Pony Boy, Little Cottage, Mossy Creek, Little People, Corn Woman, Teller of Wonders, Talatu Place, Yunwi Tsunsdi, Hidden People, Red Betty, Harlan Messer, Miss Birdie, Civil War New!
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Front Cover | Copyright |