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The Tombs of Atuan – Reviewing Classics





Atheneum Books, 1971
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN-10: 1416509623
192 pages
Newbery Honor Book
Synopsis
Tenar, the priestess to the ancient and long held worship of the Nameless Ones, is taken as a child and raised as the one who will guard the catacombs of the Tombs of Atuan for her entire life. Thought to be the reincarnation of the one priestess who lives and is reincarnated in every generation, Tenar is raised as someone who is both feared and revered by her peers and authority figures, even at a young age. …
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