![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. McConnell, San Antonio Public LibraryĬopyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. Melling, Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Ri. ![]() Kay's relocation to the present and her budding romance with the young man in the nearby apartment is a satisfying outcome, with time-travel still an option. Books shelved as 2021-nostalgia-summer: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott ODell, The Singing Stone by O.R. Despite some plot weaknesses and patches of graceless writing (and Kay's speech made more colloquial than Aherne's to underscore the time-gap), this reads and paces well. Melling's interpretation of Celtic themes is ingenious and inventive, and the device of restoring the De Danaan to their lost status as gods is magically imagined. ![]() Ultimately, their quest will redeem the ancestors and reconcile warring invaders and settlersmoral concerns that mirror modern ones. She and a De Danaan foundling, Aherne, are charged with finding the lost treasures of the De Danaans. Following anonymous clues and increasingly strong dream-visions, modern-day Kay travels to Ireland and enters the Bronze-Age. she receives a mysterious parcel of books containing old Celtic legends about stone monuments and a mysterious singing stone. ![]() Grade 6-8 A time-fantasy and coming-of-age romance in which orphan Kay seeks her origins and finds her ancestors in a supernatural past. ![]()
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