Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.A sympathetic look at an often-vilified character and the events that made her the person she ultimately became.' This was a powerful retelling of a legend, as seen through the eyes of a young woman who fights to control her future, even though she knows deep inside she is doomed to failure. Morgan knows she has a dark fate she is doomed to fulfill - and although she fights it, her struggles are in vain. There, Morgan's power steadily grows - but so does her hatred. When the king dies, Morgan dares to hope that her life will go back to the way it used to be - but instead, she and her sister are forced to flee to Ongwynn's isolated home. For five years Morgan and her sister Morgause are cared for by their childhood nurse, Ongwynn, and during that time, Morgan's hatred for the king and for her half-brother Arthur steadily grows.

Bitter with anger and resentment, the little girl awakens something magical within her - a power that can be used for good or evil. For her father was dead - killed by the king Uther Pendragon, who then steals Morgan's mother away. And when the six-year-old witnessed a man leaving her mother's chamber, a man that looked just like her father but was nothing like him, she knew something was wrong. 'Although his many duties as the Duke of Cornwall often kept him away from home, young Morgan loved her father. This is the perfect companion to Nancy Springer's I am Mordred, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Here, the treacherous half-sister of Arthur tells the fantastic story of her life, from her tragic childhood to the moment she realizes her fated role in the King's downfall. We were unable to find any books matching your exact criteria.Although the legend of King Arthur has been told many times, rarely have the villains of the tale been given voices. Springer lives in East Berlin, Pennsylvania. Her most recent series include the Tales of Rowan Hood, featuring Robin Hood’s daughter, and the Enola Holmes mysteries, starring the much younger sister of Sherlock Holmes. Field award, various Children's Choice honors and numerous ALA Best Book listings. Springer's children's books have won her two Edgar Allan Poe awards, a Carolyn W. Her novels and stories for middle-grade and young adults range from contemporary realism, mystery/crime, and fantasy to her critically acclaimed novels based on the Arthurian mythos, I AM MORDRED: A TALE OF CAMELOT and I AM MORGAN LE FAY. In a career beginning shortly after she graduated from Gettysburg College in 1970, Springer wrote for ten years in the imaginary realms of mythological fantasy, then ventured on contemporary fantasy, magical realism, and women's fiction before turning her attention to children's literature. Nancy Springer has published forty novels for adults, young adults and children.

I am morgan le fay by nancy springer