The Waterstone
by Rebecca Rupp
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Twelve-year-old Tad, finding that he holds an ancient wisdom and the power to draw beings together, embarks on a quest to seek a powerful crystal which, when retrieved from the evil Nixie, will restore balance to the world.Tags
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An ecological adventure in which the young Fisher boy, Tad, sets out on a quest to save his people in the world with the help of his sister, Birdie, the Tribes, witches, birds and animals, and his own growing magic.
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Rebecca Rupp and her husband, Randy, homeschooled their three sons from preschool through high school, and all grew up to be creative, kindhearted people with large vocabularies. Rebecca has published over 300 articles in national magazines and nearly two dozen books, both for children and for adults. She maintains an educational resources blog at show more rebeccaruppresources.com. She lives on Lake Champlain in northern Vermont. show less
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- Canonical title
- The Waterstone
- People/Characters
- Tadpole 'Tad' of the Fisher Tribe; Redbird 'Birdie' of the Fisher Tribe; Pondleweed of the Fisher Tribe; Pippit the Watchfrog; Ditani of the Hunter Tribe; Kral of the Red-tails (show all 7); Willem of the Digger Tribe
- Dedication
- For Josh, who first invented Pondleweed
- First words
- Prologue: The young magpie collected things.
Chapter 1: Tad was beginning to hate the spear. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Then the pond turned deeper green as if in welcome, and the warm wind suddenly smelled sweet with rain.
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Tween, Fantasy
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .R8886 .W — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- English, German
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- Paper, Ebook
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