Bone Queen, The

Young Bard Cadvan summons the brutal and violent Bone Queen and his rash action costs him everything, including his love Ceredin, and he is banished to a rural mining town where he works as a cobbler and tries his best to forget his past. But was the Bone Queen ever truly defeated or are the whisperings of a darkness appearing a sign that there is more trouble on the horizon? This high fantasy, adventure novel, a prequel to the Pellinor quartet, provides insight into the themes of friendship and forgiveness, cause and consequence, light and darkness, resiliency, and error and redemption, and is suitable as an independent or literature circle choice for avid fantasy fans in grades 9-12.