Feature Book of the Week #11 Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Feature Book of the Week
Seraphina
by 
Rachel Hartman

Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. Folding themselves into human shape, dragons attend court as ambassadors, and lend their rational, mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers. As the treaty's anniversary draws near, however, tensions are high.

Seraphina Dombegh has reason to fear both sides. An unusually gifted musician, she joins the court just as a member of the royal family is murdered—in suspiciously draconian fashion. Seraphina is drawn into the investigation, partnering with the captain of the Queen's Guard, the dangerously perceptive Prince Lucian Kiggs. While they begin to uncover hints of a sinister plot to destroy the peace, Seraphina struggles to protect her own secret, the secret behind her musical gift, one so terrible that its discovery could mean her very life.
 



About the Author

Rachel Hartman’s first YA fantasy novel, SERAPHINA, will be published by Random House on July 10th, 2012.
Rachel was born in Kentucky, but has lived a variety of places including Chicago, PhiladelphiDon Quixoteand the satires of Lucian.” She eschewed graduate school in favour of drawing comic books. She now lives in Vancouver, BC, with her family, their whippet, and a talking frog and salamander (who fight zombies)(really. There are a lot of zombies in the Pacific Northwest). Check out Racheal Hartman's website.

3 Delicious Comments:

Anonymous said...

We fell in love with Seraphina's take on the Dragons of lore! Everybody in our group loves reading it

Parkway Northeast Middle School

Anonymous said...

We fell in love with Seraphina's take on the Dragons of lore! Everybody in our group loves reading it

Parkway Northeast Middle School

Kenneth H. said...

I like how this is a fantasy between humans and dragons, that the dragons take human form and attend school. They are teachers and scholars. --Kenneth, 8th graders at Lift for Life Academy

 
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