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(3) YA During the eighteenth-century Scottish Highland Clearances, Roddy's family is brutally evicted from the laird's land. Roddy risks returning to find a half-mythical family heirloom, but he must enlist the help of a thieving rogue to retrieve the jewels from the unscrupulous laird. Yolen and Harris keep the focus tightly on Roddy's first-person perspective as "apprentice rogue" in this fast-paced action-adventure.

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