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The Dungeon
By Banks, Lynne Reid
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-06623-782-4 978-0-06623-783-1
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 2002
Gr 5-9 Set in feudal Scotland, this book focuses on an adult character and his unremitting desire for justice while two children weave in and out of the story. It begins with Laird Bruce MacLennan standing at the edge of a deep, square pit that will be used to incarcerate his nemesis, Archibald MacInnes, who captured and killed MacLennan's wife and children. While construction of the dungeon and the castle that will stand around it proceeds, the obsessed MacLennan travels ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2002
Something terrible has happened to fourteenth-century Scottish laird Bruce MacLennan, something that wrested from him his humanity and his heart and replaced those virtues with cruelty and hatred. Gradually, the reader learns that a neighboring laird, MacInnes, killed his children and abducted his wife. MacLennan plots vengeance on MacInnes and orders a castle built to his specifications, including a dungeon of utter darkness to which MacLennan plans to deliver his enemy. While his castle is under construction, MacLennan escapes to exotic lands, further provisioning himself and waiting out his time befor...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
