آواز سنجاقک (بال‌های مینویی #۱)

Winner: 2017 Prime Minister's Literary Award, Children's Fiction Winner: 2018 Adelaide Festival Awards For Literature, Children's Literature Honour Book: Cbca Book Of The Year, Younger Readers, 2017 There Are Two Ways Of Looking At Aissa's Story. She's The Miracle Girl Who Escaped The Raiders. Or She's The Cursed Child Who Called The Bull King's Ship To The Island. The Firstborn Daughter Of A Priestess Is Cast Out As A Baby, And After Raiders Kill Her Adopted Family, She Is Abandoned At The Gates Of The Great Hall, Anonymous And Mute. Called No-name, The Cursed Child, She Is Raised A Slave, And Not Until She Is Twelve Does She Learn Her Name Is Aissa: The Dragonfly. Now Every Year The Bull King Takes A Tribute From The Island: Two Thirteen-year-old Children To Brave The Bloody Bull Dances In His Royal Court. None Have Ever Returned - But For Aissa It Is The Only Escape. Aissa Is Resilient, Resourceful, And Fast - But To Survive The Bull Ring, She Will Have To Learn The Mystery Of Her True Nature. A Riveting, Mythic Bronze Age Adventure From Award-winning Author Wendy Orr. Abandoned by the priestess of the island at birth, Aissa is an outcast, surviving by her wits - until she joins the acrobatic bull dancers who are sent away to compete on the island of the Bull King. A gripping and powerful adventure by acclaimed author Wendy Orr.WINNER: 2017 Prime Minister's Literary Award, Children's FictionWINNER: 2018 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, Children's Literature HONOUR BOOK: CBCA Book of the Year, Younger Readers, 2017 There are two ways of looking at Aissa's story. She's the miracle girl who escaped the raiders. Or she's the cursed child who called the Bull King's ship to the island.The firstborn daughter of a priestess is cast out as a baby, and after raiders kill her adopted family, she is abandoned at the gates of the Great Hall, anonymous and mute. Called No-Name, the cursed child, she is raised a slave, and not until she is twelve does she learn her name is Aissa: the dragonfly.Now every year the Bull King takes a tribute from the island: two thirteen-year-old children to brave the bloody bull dances in his royal court. None have ever returned - but for Aissa it is the only escape.Aissa is resilient, resourceful, and fast - but to survive the bull ring, she will have to learn the mystery of her true nature.A riveting, mythic Bronze Age adventure from award-winning author Wendy Orr. Wendy Orr has created a fabulous story about a girl, the first-born daughter of a priestess, who is abandoned at birth and lives amongst the slaves. At age twelve she learns her name, Aissa, and joins the acrobatic bull dancers who are sent away to compete on the island of the Bull King. The little girl found under a bush has no name and cannot speak. Is she a miracle child who escaped the raiders, or is she a bad-luck child, the one who called the Bull King's ship to the island? No one sees the mama-stone around her neck, with the sign of the dragonfly. And only Luki, in training to leap the bulls, knows that she charmed the viper who would have killed him. When the girl turns twelve, she discovers her name - Aissa - and she knows that her one chance to live freely is to become a bull dancer, and be taken away to the island of the Bull King "The little girl found under a bush has no name and cannot speak. Is she a miracle child who escaped the raiders, or is she a bad-luck child, the one who called the Bull King's ship to the island? No one sees the mama-stone around her neck, with the sign of the dragonfly. And only Luki, in training to leap the bulls, knows that she charmed the viper who would have killed him. When the girl turns twelve, she discovers her name - Aissa - and she knows that her one chance to live freely is to become a bull dancer, and be taken away to the island of the Bull King." --Publisher description After being abandoned by her birth mother, orphaned by her adopted family, and cast out by others, Aissa decides her only escape is to dance for the Bull King.