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CYBELE'S SECRET Juliet Marillier Hardcover | Knopf Books for Young Readers | 978-0-375-83365-6 | September 2008 | $16.99 | Ages 12 up Hardcover Library Binding | Knopf Books for Young Readers | 978-0-375-93365-3 | September 2008 | $19.99 | Ages 12 up

17-year-old Paula has accompanied her father to Istanbul to procure for a wealthy collector an ancient pagan artifact called “Cybele’s Gift,” worshipped by the long disbanded cult of Cybele. But searching for this artifact is fraught with danger and many of the city’s Muslim clerics want it destroyed as rumors of the cult’s revival within Istanbul persist. A colleague of her father’s is murdered just before they arrive, prompting Paula and her father to hire Stoyan, a young and handsome bodyguard that may know more about “Cybele’s Gift” then he is letting on. Paula, a young woman from Transylvania, soon finds herself in the middle of the Ottoman Empire surrounded by pirates, eunuchs, powerful women, and perilous journeys. What is so dangerous about “Cybele’s Gift” and what is the secret that it holds? It soon becomes clear to Paula that she alone must unlock the mystery.

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Prepared by Shauna Yusko, Teacher-Librarian, Evergreen Junior High, Redmond, Washington

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