The Humpbacked Flute Player

by Sharman Apt Russell

Book Overview

When May touches the crude cave drawing of a fluteplayer she and Evan are transported to an alternate reality, where they become pawns in a tense intertribal battle, and finding the humpbacked... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 099741622X
• ISBN13: 9780997416220
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Horseshoe Books
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A lyrical book

Two sixth graders, May and Evan, are on a field trip in Phoenix, Arizona and suddenly find themselves in an alternate time. At first one thinks they have gone into the past, as they meet low-technology-level people, but it turns out that these tribes have magical abilities. May and Evan have to find out why they're here and help the children of this time. I thought this book was well-written and certainly would be an interesting story for a sixth grader. There were a few violent acts committed but it wasn't too squeamish because the author told about them in a manner-of-fact way. For example one of the slave "Indians" is crippled when his owners cut his Achilles tendon. This sounds horrifying to me but the author simply mentions it in a non-bloody manner and continues with the story.Overlaying it all is a sweet story about May coming to love the desert. A good read.