This book is about a young girl named trinket who's father is a bard (a person who tells stories) but he left her home a few years ago and Trinket lives with her mom. Soon enough, her mother dies and Trinket has to choose what to do with her life. After her mother's funeral, she asks Thomas the pig boy, a boy who has lived near her since like, a really long time and has a very strict mother to go on a quest to find her father and possibly find some nice stories to tell. On the way she meets gypsies, selkies, a banshee, helps a highway man, and much more. And on the way, she collects many things such as music and friendship.
The Seven Tales of Trinket
By Shelley Moore Thomas
| Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grades 4 - 8 | Grades 3 - 5 | n/a | 4.9 | 55888 |
Guided by a tattered map, accompanied by Thomas the Pig Boy, and inspired by the storyteller's blood that thrums through her veins, eleven-year-old Trinket searches for the seven stories she needs to become a bard like her father, who disappeared years before. She befriends a fortune-telling gypsy girl; returns a child stolen by the selkies to his true mother; confronts a banshee and receives a message from a ghost; helps a village girl outwit―and out-dance―the Faerie Queen; travels beyond the grave to battle a dastardly undead Highwayman; and meets a hound so loyal he fights a wolf to the death to protect the baby prince left in his charge. All fine material for six tales, but it is the seventh tale, in which Trinket learns her father's true fate, that changes her life forever.
The Seven Tales of Trinket is a Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book of 2012
Publisher: Square Fish
ISBN-13: 9781250039941
ISBN-10: 1250039940
Published on 2/11/2014
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 384