num_pages: 219
description: 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, the girl is forced to undertake a dangerous and forbidden mission: sneak from the harem and travel the city, pulling tales from strangers and bringing them back to Shahrazad. But as she searches the city, a wonderful thing happens. From a quiet spinner of tales, Marjan suddenly becomes the center of a more surprising story than she ever could have imagined.
language: English
title: Shadow Spinner
titlecomplete: Shadow Spinner
genres: Fairy Tales, Retellings, Adventure, Historical, Fantasy, Childrens, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 7955
places: Iran, Persia
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Literaturpreis der Jury der jungen Leser
category: Kinderbuch
publisher: Simon & Schuster