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Injured in battle with the Dark Raiders, sixteen-year-old Tebriel is healed by a colony of talking otters and sets out to fight the Dark and its forces of evil in the world of Tirror.Tags
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Too much akin to typical fantasy for my personal taste; gave up p. 80.
book 1 of trilogy (dragonbards, ivory lyre) juvenile fic. good
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55+ Works 5,699 Members
Fiction author Shirley Rousseau Murphy grew up in Long Beach, California and majored in fine and commercial art at the San Francisco Art Institute. She has worked as a commercial artist and has exhibited paintings and sculptures extensively on the West Coast. She has also been a designer and an interior designer, as well as in a library in the show more Panama Canal Zone. Murphy has written several children's books, plus the fantasy novel The Catswold Portal, the Dragonbards trilogy, and the popular Joe Grey mystery series, for which she has won eight Muse Medallion awards from the Cat Writers' Association. She and her husband live in Carmel, California. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 1985
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- Fiction and Literature, Fantasy, Teen, Tween, Young Adult
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- 303 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social processes
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- PZ7 .M956 .N — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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