Shadow Spinner

Shadow Spinner

1999 • 219 pages

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Average rating4.3

15

Every night, Shahrazad begins a story. And every morning, the Sultan lets her live another day—providing the story is interesting enough to capture his attention. After almost one thousand nights, Shahrazad is running out of tales. And that is how Marjan's story begins.

It falls to Marjan to help Shahrazad find new stories—ones the Sultan has never heard before. To do that, Marjan is forced to undertake a dangerous and forbidden mission: sneak from the harem and travel the city, coaxing strangers to tell her stories and bringing them back to Shahrazad. But as she searches the city, a wonderful thing happens. Marjan, who had been just a quiet spinner of tales when the story began, becomes the center of a story more surprising than she ever imagined.

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February 12, 2021

This was a great book! I read it to my son for school, but I ended up falling in love with this story too.
It makes me wanna be a storyteller when I grow up!! LOVE!

April 11, 2015