THE LIGHT OF THE ORACLE

Book ID/图书代码： 04300004B06421

English Summary/英文概要： Bryn is the daughter of a humble stone-cutter. So no one is more surprised than she when the Master Priest seeks her out to become a student at the famous Temple of the Oracle; a training school for future priests and priestesses. But her innately gifted nature proves a threat to the evil embedded within the Temple, and Bryn encounters unimaginable danger. Is she able to struggle with the unknown and to save the whole world from untold misery? Or will the powers of darkness succeed?

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 伯恩是一个石匠的女儿，已经习惯于被人称为异类，奇怪的孩子，或是毫无志气的人。她总是被一些别人看不到的景象所困扰，又因为可以和风还有天空对话，而总是被别人嘲笑。为什么呢？难道神父对她的期许过高吗？
一天，一朵蓟花的冠毛带她走入了她真正的命运----她离开了生长十五年的村庄，来到一个完全不同的地方。在那里，她进入到一个神谕寺庙，并发现自己原来拥有一种与生俱来的天分，而这个天分对于那些企图滥用寺庙的力量来达到自身目的的人是一种巨大的威胁。
尽管她的愿望只是想和其他女侍建立友谊，并得到基兰-----一位出色的驯马者的爱。但伯恩不久便发现自己已经被错综复杂的问题包围了，为了保持精神的纯洁与光明，伯恩必须要克服更多她难以想象的障碍和困难…(zh)

Awards/获奖情况： 2006-2007 Colorado Blue Spruce Award List
• 2006 Kallbacher Klapperschlange Award List (Germany)
• 2006 Lonestar Reading List --Try These Too
• 2006 Arlington Virginia Department of Libraries TAB Pick
• 2005 Infolink Book Evaluation Starred Review (Eastern New Jersey Regional Library District)
• 2005 Colorado Book Award Finalist
• 2005 Teens Connect Great Read
Children’s Literature - Jean Boreen, Ph.D.:
Bryn, daughter of a lowly stonecutter, catches the attention of Renchald, High Priest of the Temple, when he notes her ability to "see what others miss." Chosen to come and live in the Temple of the Oracle, Bryn still faces a hard life as those who are from less highly-connected or poor families are taken advantage of by those with more likely connections. But Bryn has gifts that make her unique to the Temple, as does her friend, Kiran, whose ability to talk to animals makes him the Temple horse-trainer. But it is Bryn’s courage to support the exiled Selid梐 seer whose visions threatened Renchald’s power梩hat forces her to choose between the Temple and her friends, between a sure future and one shadowed by doubt. As she struggles to find answers, she is further plagued by the Clea, whose power derives from the god of death. Clea’s goal is to curse Bryn in order to control her. This is a strong fantasy novel from an author with a clear sense of her audience and a masterful control of where the plot and the characters need to go within the pages of the story. Recommended. 2005, David Fickling Books, Ages 12 to 16.
THE SCHOOL LIBRARIAN -Valerie Caless:
Bryn is a dreamer, and as a girl, has no value. Until that is, Renchald, the Master Priest from the temple rides by, and recognizes instantly her potential to be trained as a handmaid and possibly a priestess of the Oracle in distant Amarkand. She travels to Amarkand with high hopes, but even on the way there are signs that all is not what the Master Priest wishes it to seem. While at the temple, Bryn has to go through rigorous training, which is not made easier by the enmity of some of her fellow trainees, in particular Princess Clea. Gradually, a story of plots and danger emerges, and Bryn comes to understand more than Renchald would like. Bryn has a friend in Kiran, a boy with a particular skill with horses, and his loyalty and that of her small group of friends carry her through adventures and perils to an end in which some of them have died. Renchald proves to have been a false friend, though the reader is forced to respect him. This story is full of mysterious language and customs. In the timeless otherworld in which they are set, they seem quite natural. What appears to be yet another run-of-the-mill fantasy story turns out to be quite a gripping tale of loyalty, treachery, fortitude, a search for truth, and love.
Publishers Weekly:
The Light of the Oracle by Victoria Hanley centers on 15-year-old Bryn. This stonecutter’s daughter finds that she has certain talents that threaten evildoers who would put the Temple of the Oracle in peril-and she predicts the demise of Lord Morlen, last seen in The Healer’s Keep. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

About the Author/作者介绍： 维多利亚•汉利（Victoria Hanley），花了很长一段时间来准备做一名作家，期间她尽其所能的换了许多工作，从烤面包到教授解剖学，再到主持广播节目。也到仙境热点地区做了许多旅行-----开车，飞机，公车，火车或是自行车。她现今住在科罗拉多州的洛夫兰，就位于落基山脚下，是一个集仙女，妖怪，小鬼，巨怪，小精灵，以及人类为一体的地方。她的个人主页为：www.victoriahanley.com

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