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The gilded ones / Namina Forna.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Usborne, 2021.Description: 411 pages : map (black and white) ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781474959575 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.6 23
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that will determine whether she will become a member of her village. Already different from everyone else because of her unnatural intuition, Deka prays for red blood so she can finally feel like she belongs. But on the day of the ceremony, her blood runs gold, the color of impurity - and Deka knows she will face a consequence worse than death. Then a mysterious woman comes to her with a choice: stay in the village and submit to her fate, or leave to fight for the emperor in an army of girls just like her. They are called alaki - near-immortals with rare gifts. And they are the only ones who can stop the empire's greatest threat.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode
Fiction The Harden Library, King's Hospital Fiction Section F FOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out AR BL 5.5 31/01/2022 R17203L0499
Fiction The Harden Library, King's Hospital Fiction Section F FOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available AR BL 5.5 R17135F0499
Fiction The Harden Library, King's Hospital Fiction Section F FOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Rec 14+ ? AR BL 5.5 R17116P0499

Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that will determine whether she will become a member of her village. Already different from everyone else because of her unnatural intuition, Deka prays for red blood so she can finally feel like she belongs. But on the day of the ceremony, her blood runs gold, the color of impurity - and Deka knows she will face a consequence worse than death. Then a mysterious woman comes to her with a choice: stay in the village and submit to her fate, or leave to fight for the emperor in an army of girls just like her. They are called alaki - near-immortals with rare gifts. And they are the only ones who can stop the empire's greatest threat.

Carries warning. Includes scenes of graphic violence.

14+.

Key Stage 4.

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