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Dragonfly Song
by Wendy Orr
Ages: 12+
Published: 2017
Publisher: Pajama Press
ISBN: 978-1-77278-037-6
Keywords: Minotur, Bronze age, Ancient cultures, Minoan civilization, Ancient civilizations
Outcast Aissa has a talent for singing, but is voiceless. Chosen as the island's sacrifice to the Bull-King, will her gift ever be revealed? Told through a mixture of poetry and prose.