The Stone of Amaaranth: An Epic Fantasy Novel for Middle Grade Readers
Graduation Date
Fall 2008
Document Type
Master's Thesis
Document Form
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Program Name
Humanities
First Reader
Joan Baranow, PhD
Second Reader
Richard Simon, MFA
Abstract
The Stone of Amaranth is a chapter book for kids nine to fourteen, set in medieval times, and the coming of age story for a boy and a girl. The boy is trained by an old hermitic woman to search for magic stones. She calls him Boy because of a spell which prevents either of them from knowing his name. The stones, however, never seemed to have any magic, until the last stone quest, where the boy meets Clio, a girl transformed into a cat by an evil king. The boy learns to wield Free Magic in a battle against the king and discovers his name.
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