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When the Gold Ridge Mountains fall under a looming drought, outcast trader Daja Kisubo and her companions leave the Winding Circle for a perilous trek to save the region’s people. Amid their travels, Daja invents a living metal vine that could quench the famine, awakening both marvel and desire in the trading caravan that follows. As traders covet her creation, Daja is confronted with the pull of her former community and the ties she has forged with her new family. Faced with this dilemma, she must decide whether to return to the Traders who seek her invention or stay with the Winding Circle folk who have become her true home.
First publish date: 1998
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Fantasy
Authors: Tamora Pierce
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