| Edition |
1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed. |
| Description |
662 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Pathfinder series ; 1 |
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Card, Orson Scott.
Pathfinder series ; 1.
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| Audience |
Ages 12 up. |
| Contents |
If a tree falls -- Upsheer -- Nox's wall -- Shrine of the wandering saint -- Riverside tavern -- Leaky and loaf -- O -- The tower -- Umbo -- Citizen -- Backward -- In irons -- Rigg alone -- Flacommo's house -- Trust -- Blind spot -- Scholar -- Digging in the past -- Aressa Sessamo -- What Knosso knew -- Noodles -- Escape -- Carriage -- Jump from the rock -- Expendable. |
| Summary |
A powerful secret. A dangerous path. Rigg is well trained at keeping secrets. Only his father knows the truth about Rigg's strange talent for seeing the paths of people's pasts. But when his father dies, Rigg is stunned to learn just how many secrets Father had kept from him -- secrets about Rigg's own past, his identity, and his destiny. And when Rigg discovers that he has the power not only to see the past, but also to change it, his future suddenly becomes anything but certain. Rigg's birthright sets him on a path that leaves him caught between two factions, one that wants him crowned and one that wants him dead. He will be forced to question everything he thinks he knows, choose whom to trust, and push the limits of his talent, or forfeit control of his destiny. - Jacket flap. |
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Thirteen-year-old Rigg has a secret ability to see the paths of others' pasts, but revelations after his father's death set him on a dangerous quest that brings new threats from those who would either control his destiny or kill him. |
| Awards |
Booklist Editors' Choice Books for Youth, 2010. |
| Subject |
Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Juvenile fiction.
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Psychic ability -- Juvenile fiction.
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Time travel -- Juvenile fiction.
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Interplanetary voyages -- Juvenile fiction.
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Space colonies -- Juvenile fiction.
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Science fiction.
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Identity -- Fiction.
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Psychic ability -- Fiction.
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Time travel -- Fiction.
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Interplanetary voyages -- Fiction.
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Space colonies -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Young adult fiction, American.
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Science fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781416991762 |
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141699176X |
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9781416991793 (pbk.) |
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1416991794 (pbk.) |
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