Dragonfly song
By: Wendy Orr
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9781760290023; 9781743369029
Subjects: Children's, Teenage & educational; Contests; Adventure and adventurers; Mute persons; Juvenile fiction; Bronze age; Fiction; Fantasy; Bulls; Fction; Mythology; Orphans
Description: The little girl found under a bush has no name and cannot speak. Is she a miracle child who escaped the raiders, or is she a bad-luck child, the one who called the Bull King's ship to the island? No one sees the mama-stone around her neck, with the sign of the dragonfly. And only Luki, in training to leap the bulls, knows that she charmed the viper who would have killed him. When the girl turns twelve, she discovers her name - Aissa - and she knows that her one chance to live freely is to become a bull dancer, and be taken away to the island of the Bull King.
Notes: Children's Book Council of Australia Shortlist, 2017.