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Mahy, Margaret

Alchemy

209 pp. | McElderry | April, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-689-85053-0 $$16.95
(2) YA In this contemporary tale, seventeen-year-old Roland seems on the surface to have it all. But he's haunted by a recurring dream of himself at age four, placed in a coffin--and changed in some frightening way--by a magician name Quando. With her linguistic adroitness, Mahy plays with Browning's "Childe Roland to the dark tower came." Mahy is at her best when all the pieces of this puzzle come together.
Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2003

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