Harcourt, Inc.
Available: 08/01/07
5.50 x 8.25 · 512 pages
978-0-15-205770-1 CDN $18.95 · cl

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Young Gav can remember the page of a book after seeing it once, and, inexplicably, he sometimes “remembers” things that are going to happen in the future. As a loyal slave, he must keep these powers secret, but when a terrible tragedy occurs, Gav, blinded by grief, flees the only world he has ever known. In what becomes a treacherous journey for freedom, Gav’s greatest test of all is facing his powers so that he can come to understand himself and finally find a true home.

This third book in Newbery Honor- and five-time Nebula Award-winner Ursula Le Guin’s Annals of the Western Shore series is an epic story of survival and self-discovery. It’s a haunting and complex coming-of-age tale that speaks to the power of new beginnings and, most importantly, of hope.

Gifts, the first book in the series, has been honoured as a Booklist Editor’s Choice, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and an Amazon.com top 10 Editors’ Pick for Teens. It was also a Parents’ Choice Silver Honor winner and took the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction.

URSULA LE GUIN (Portland) is the acclaimed author of over three dozen books. She has won numerous awards, among them a National Book Award and a Newbery Honor for the second volume of the Earthsea Cycle, The Tombs of Atuan.