Help

DiscussãoName that Book

Aderi ao LibraryThing para poder publicar.

Help

1llama1774
Mar 7, 2021, 10:35 pm

YA fiction

I read it in high school book club in spring 06

What I remember:
A dying out tribe of Highlanders have families born with magical abilities. The narrator/protagonist is the powerless son, and only surviving child of the head of his family. His dad has the power to make living things rot I think and is very powerful.

His best friend is a mild mannered girl that has the power to telepathically link with animals and sort of communicate. She can also link with unborn humans in early pregnancy.

Plot centers around the narrator realizing that he doesn't have the power of his family and how to talk to his father.

2Mfanway
Maio 10, 2021, 7:59 am

Please help ... I read a book in the 1980’s. Fiction (thought it was one of Roald Dahl Tales of the unexpected - it was about a child who was hidden away for looking different. When the child eventually escapes it turns out that everyone around them looks different (to our perception of normal). May have even mentioned that the general population had one eye in the centre of their face.....

4beyondthefourthwall
Maio 10, 2021, 11:21 am

Gifts by Ursula K. LeGuin. Lovely book.