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QUIVER
Stephanie Spinner
Hardcover Knopf Books for Young Readers | October 2002 | $15.95
| 0-375-81489-2 | Ages 12 up
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Abandoning children in Dumpsters and on the side
of the road is a tragedy that occurs frequently in our society.
It also happened in the Greek Myth to Atalanta. She was left to
die in the forest by her father, but was found by hunters who raised
her to be a fine marksman and swift runner. Unlike the babies abandoned
today, Atalanta had Artemis, goddess of the hunt and mistress of
the wild, to protect and guide her.
Atalanta’s skill with the bow gets
her in trouble at a famous hunt, leaving several men dead and others
injured; and when her father hears of her conquest, he brings her
back to his castle to marry and provide him with a male heir. But
Atalanta has promised to stay unmarried and loyal to Artemis for
saving her life. Knowing no man can beat her, she devises a plan
to make her suitors compete with her in a footrace to win her hand
in marriage: if they lose, they die. How many men will have to die
before Atalanta marries? And what will eventually happen to her
at her father’s castle?
COPYRIGHT
Prepared by Susan Geye, Library Media Specialist,
Crowley Ninth Grade Campus, Crowley, TX
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