Spellhorn (Essential Modern Classics)

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A blind girl and a unicorn in a world where magic and reality merge together. Can Laura save the Wild Ones and take them to the safety of the Bright Wilderness
Laura is blind, but though she cannot see, she is an acutely perceptive child. As soon as she climbs onto the unicorns back she is hurled into a wild and magical world. Though a contemporary child, living in a contemporary setting, Spellhorn and the Wild Ones see Laura as their leader and they know that only through Laura can they reach the safety of the Bright Wilderness. But can the unicorns lead Laura back home to her own world

Powerful and moving, a delicious blend of fantasy and reality.

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• Brought into the Essential Modern Classic branding, with More than a Story section featuring background information and facts
• Promoted to schools via teacher mailings and on www.collinseducation.com
• Berlie Doherty is the best-selling and award-winning author of Dear Nobody and Granny was a Buffer Girl , both of which won the Carnegie Medal.
• Other Essential Modern Classic available: Elidor (978-0-00-727478-9), The Giver (978-0-00-726351-6) and Journery to JoBurg (978-0-00-726350-9)

Author Bio

Born in Knotty Ash, Liverpool, Berlie Doherty is the youngest of three children. She has been a social worker, a journalist, a teacher, and, for the past twenty years, a writer. Berlie has twice won the prestigious Carnegie Medal, for 'Grannie was a Buffer Girl' in 1987 and for 'Dear Nobody' in 1992. She lives in the Derbyshire Peak District.