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Tess of the Road
Contributor(s): Hartman, Rachel (Author)

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ISBN: 1101931280     ISBN-13: 9781101931288
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2018
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Fantasy - General
- Young Adult Fiction | Action & Adventure - General
- Young Adult Fiction | Historical - Medieval
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2016041764
Age Level: 12-UP
Grade Level: 7-UP
Lexile Measure: 830(Not Available)
Physical Information: 1.8" H x 5.7" W x 8.4" L (1.40 lbs) 544 pages
Features: Ikids, Price on Product
Review Citations: Booklist 11/01/2017 pg. 49
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2017 pg. 179
School Library Journal 01/01/2018
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2018 - Book Of Special Distinction
Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2018 pg. 86
Shelf Awareness 03/02/2018
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2018 - Superior,Well Above Average
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 195164
Reading Level: 6.4   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 22.0
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
Award-winning Rachel Hartman's newest YA is a tour de force and an exquisite fantasy for the #metoo movement.

Tess of the Road is astonishing and perfect. It's the most compassionate book I've read since George Eliot's Middlemarch. --NPR

In the medieval kingdom of Goredd, women are expected to be ladies, men are their protectors, and dragons can be whomever they choose. Tess is none of these things. Tess is. . . different. She speaks out of turn, has wild ideas, and can't seem to keep out of trouble. Then Tess goes too far. What she's done is so disgraceful, she can't even allow herself to think of it. Unfortunately, the past cannot be ignored. So Tess's family decide the only path for her is a nunnery.

But on the day she is to join the nuns, Tess chooses a different path for herself. She cuts her hair, pulls on her boots, and sets out on a journey. She's not running away, she's running towards something. What that something is, she doesn't know. Tess just knows that the open road is a map to somewhere else--a life where she might belong.

Returning to the spellbinding world of the Southlands she created in the award-winning, New York Times bestselling novel Seraphina, Rachel Hartman explores self-reliance and redemption in this wholly original fantasy.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR * BOSTON GLOBE * The Chicago Public Library * KIRKUS REVIEWS

Four starred reviews

The world building is gorgeous, the creatures are vivid and Hartman is a masterful storyteller. Pick up this novel, and savor every page. --Paste Magazine

 
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