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200 pp.
| Scholastic/Orchard |
June, 2001 |
TradeISBN 0-531-30334-9$$17.95
(2)
YA
In 794 C.E., a group of Norse raiders embarks on a perilous crossing in the swift new Raven to the Anglo-Saxon villages and new churches of Northumberland. Their raid, detailed here in all its brutality, exemplifies cultural conflict at its most basic. The third-person narration is a cool exploration, in a vivid historical reconstruction, of the psychology of violence.
Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2001