The Kelpie's Pearls
by Mollie Hunter
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Morag Macleod lives on the hill above Loch Ness. Everyone thinks she is a witch because of the strange things that have happened since she went to see the monster rise. Everyone believes it was she who managed to raise Nessie. Only Torquil, who lives behind Morag's cottage, knows better.Tags
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I reread Mollie Hunter's The Walking Stones last fall and loved it all over again, so I had high hopes for The Kelpie's Pearls. It's not quite what I'd been hoping for. Like The Walking Stones, the basis of the tale is "real life isn't only what it seems," but Hunter tells this story with much more of a fairy-tale tone. It didn't quite do it for me, but it was still a nice read.
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Mollie Hunter was born in Longniddry, East Lothian, Scotland on June 30, 1922. At the age of 14, she got a job at a flower shop in Edinburgh and educated herself by studying in the National Library. Most of her children's books were based on Scottish history and legends. Her works include A Sound of Chariots, The Kelpie's Pearls, The Thirteenth show more Member, and The Lothian Run. She won the Carnegie Medal in 1975 for The Stronghold. She died on July 31, 2012 at the age of 90. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Kelpie's Pearls
- Original publication date
- 1964
- People/Characters
- Morag MacLeod
- Important places
- Loch Ness, Highland, Scotland, UK
- Dedication
- To my good friend THYRA PEARSON of Abriachan
- First words
- The story of how Morag MacLeod came to be called a witch is a queer one and not at all the sort of thing you would expect to happen nowadays.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And far below the house you can still see Loch Ness glinting in the valley as Morag used to see it every day before she road off with the kelpie, and as maybe she still sees it, blue and shining in Tir-nan-Og.
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- Fiction and Literature, Kids, Children's Books, Tween, Fantasy
- DDC/MDS
- 823.914 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 1901-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- English, Swedish
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