num_pages: 289
description: "JACKAROO's many fans will willingly...follow the intrepid Birle as Fortune's wheel swings...from drudgery to adventure, from iron servitude to luxury, and then finally to independence."BOOKLISTFourteen-year-old Birl, an Innkeeper's Daughter, can't imagine herself married to Muir, a hunter who lives in her village. Then, one extraordinary day, she finds a thief untying one of the Inn's boats. She tries to stop him, but by the next morning, she realizes he was Orien, a handsome young Lord, who was leaving his Kingdom behind. She vows to follow him wherever he goes. And together they take a perilous journey to the uncharted South--a sinister place where warriors rule and captives become slaves for life....
language: English
title: On Fortune's Wheel
titlecomplete: On Fortune's Wheel (Kingdom, #2)
genres: Fiction, Teen, Young Adult Fantasy, Childrens, Young Adult, Fantasy, Historical, Romance, Historical Fiction, Adventure
ratings_count: 3146
series: Tales of the Kingdom
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Mythopoeic Fantasy Award
category: Children's Literature, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award
publisher: Fawcett