An instant classic.'-Lev Grossman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Magicians Trilogy 'Reading Uprooted was like rediscovering a favorite old sweater, familiar and beloved. A delight.'-Cassandra Clare, New York Times bestselling author of The Mortal Instruments series 'Wild, thrilling, and deeply, darkly magical. Advance praise for Uprooted 'Uprooted has everything I love: a great heroine, new takes on old myths and legends, and surprising twists and turns. For when the Dragon comes, it is not Kasia he will choose. She knows-everyone knows-that the Dragon will take Kasia: beautiful, graceful, brave Kasia, all the things Agnieszka isn't, and her dearest friend in the world. The next choosing is fast approaching, and Agnieszka is afraid. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood. Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay.

But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life. He protects us against the Wood, and we're grateful, but not that grateful.' Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. Of course that's not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he's still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon.

We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. I might even call it bewitching.'-Gregory Maguire, bestselling author of Wicked and Egg & Spoon 'Our Dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. Its narrative spell is confidently wrought and sympathetically cast. 'Every so often you come upon a story that seems like a lost tale of Grimm newly come to light. 'Naomi Novik, author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed Temeraire novels, introduces a bold new world rooted in folk stories and legends, as elemental as a Grimm fairy tale.

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