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Cover of Daughter of Strangers   Daughter of Strangers
Marjory Gordon
Ottawa: Oberon Press,
2001. 153 [2] p.
ISBN 0778011828
Ages 12 and up

Thirteen-year-old Amy does not like herself very much. She also dislikes being part of her adoptive parents' summer archaeology digs in the Barrenlands. For the last few years, she has thought about asking her Mom to help her find her birth mother, but she has never gone through with it. She feels like a daughter of strangers. Some people give away puppies and kittens, she tells herself; her parents gave her away…

Although she sometimes feels as separate from her adoptive family as she does from her birth family, she feels close to the land. Amy loves the Barrenlands; however, the land has prepared a trap for her. Through her connection to it, she is transported 1,600 years back in history. Once there, she finds that she is still a daughter of strangers, but this time, among the Taltheilei people living in another era.

A glossary, a list of names of Taltheilei characters and their meanings, two maps, and a note about the author complete the contents of this book. The story will resonate with young people who wonder what it would be like to travel back in history to visit the time of their ancestors.

–MLP


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