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Damar

The Stone Fey

robin mckinley john clapp

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Maddy has been roaming the hills of Damar with her sheep since she was a girl. The Hills hold everything she desires: her family; her beloved dog, Aerlich - and soon, her fiancé, Donal, who has been away for a year. But one evening a lamb is lost. And when Maddy returns to the Hills to find it, she discovers something else the Hills possess - something that will change her forever...


Originally published in Imaginary Lands

52 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1,1998
Series
Damar

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Format
52 pages, Hardcover
Published
September 1, 1998 by HMH Books for Young Readers
ISBN
9780152000172
ASIN
0152000178
Language
English

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Born in her mother's hometown of Warren, Ohio, Robin McKinley grew up an only child with a father in the United States Navy. She moved around frequently as a child and read copiously; she credits this background with the inspiration for her stories.

Her passion for reading was one of the most constant things in her childhood, so she began to remember events, places, and time periods by what books she read where. For example, she read Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book for the first time in California; The Chronicles of Narnia for the first time in New York; The Lord of the Rings for the first time in Japan; The Once and Future King for the first time in Maine. She still uses books to keep track of her life.

McKinley attended Gould Academy, a preparatory school in Bethel, Maine, and Dickinson College in 1970-1972. In 1975, she was graduated summa cum laude from Bowdoin College. In 1978, her first novel, Beauty, was accepted by the first publisher she sent it to, and she began her writing career, at age 26. At the time she was living in Brunswick, Maine. Since then she has lived in Boston, on a horse farm in Eastern Massachusetts, in New York City, in Blue Hill, Maine, and now in Hampshire, England, with her husband Peter Dickinson (also a writer, and with whom she co-wrote Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits in 2001) and two lurchers (crossbred sighthounds).

Over the years she has worked as an editor and transcriber (1972-73), research assistant (1976-77), bookstore clerk (1978), teacher and counselor (1978-79), editorial assistant (1979-81), barn manager (1981-82), free-lance editor (1982-85), and full-time writer. Other than writing and reading books, she divides her time mainly between walking her "hellhounds," gardening, cooking, playing the piano, homeopathy, change ringing, and keeping her blog.

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gawdofconquest
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April 26,2025
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This book is in the Young Adult section in our library--right where it should be. Maddy, the main character gets involved in a secret relationship with a stone fey (a mythical creature right out of her grandmother's tales) which takes her from her family and the ideals she is working for. Not a book that you can read quickly because McKinley writes in a twisty worded way, " I'll write Ifgold, so that he can look us out a place to stay." Huh?? It's a book you must think about afterward to really get it.
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Kyragos
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April 26,2025
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A strange picture book with a adult story. While I LOVE McKinley, I don't think this medium worked too well.
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nicolaa1011
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April 26,2025
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I remember reading this as a child and enjoying it immensely. With that in mind, I've rated it appropriately, I hope.
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chrissy12
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April 26,2025
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I am usually fine with mythical stories and characters, but this fell completely flat for me. It was too short and simply needed further development. Has potential though...that is why I gave it two stars.
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TonhaoNoXablau
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April 26,2025
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Why my dear Robin, why?

This story was beyond boring. The writing was convoluted and hard to follow. The plot was all over the place and the characters were not fleshed out well. This to me really came across as a short story that she never bothered to finish and went ahead and published anyway. Best to just pass on this one.
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Deleb
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April 26,2025
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Haunting, strange and beautiful. Not something I'd read more than once.
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