Toads and Diamonds by Heather Tomlinson

Author:Heather Tomlinson [Tomlinson, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Juvenile Fiction, Fantasy & Magic, Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9), Children's Books - Young Adult Fiction, Family, People & Places, Love & Romance, Siblings, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Fairy tales, Asia, Stepfamilies, India, Fairy Tales & Folklore - General, Blessing and cursing, People & Places - Asia, Science Fiction; Fantasy; Magic, Fairy Tales; Folklore & Mythology, Stepsisters, India - History
ISBN: 9780805089684
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Published: 2010-08-15T07:00:00+00:00

light, moths gathered. Wings brushed Tana's hair. Then the entire bat colony converged on the moth banquet. Tana heard their leathery wings flapping, the high-pitched squeaks, the men's cursing and tramping feet. The torches retreated. She stayed hidden.

From the village, more shouting, more wailing. A dog's yelp stopped abruptly. With a loud crackling, another roof caught fire, and then another. Closer, whips snapped and oxcarts creaked. Shouted orders cut through the babble of voices, followed by a strange clanking noise. The sky was getting lighter. She might be discovered, but she had to know. Tana pushed up on her elbows and peeked through the vines. What she saw made her bite hard on her fingers to keep from crying out.

The adult villagers had been chained in lines, five or ten together, and attached to the oxcarts. Lanterns fixed to the carts' wooden sides shed a feeble light over the nightmare scene. Children rode on their parents' shoulders or ran alongside, clutching at their clothes. Tana glimpsed the headman's stocky form, but she couldn't tell whether Kalyan was among them. Soldiers rode ahead and behind the oxcarts. Some drove the farm animals. One led a riderless horse, briefly silhouetted against a lantern.

Horror choked her. Hadn't the soldiers done enough? Rousting people from their beds, breaking their things like the clay pots at the well, setting fire to the houses...after they'd looted them, probably. Why did they have to take the people away?

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