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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Text copyright © 2014 by Donna Jo Napoli
Jacket design by Krista Vossen
Jacket photograph copyright © 2014 by Terry Bidgood/Trevillion Images
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Map by Elena Furrow
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Napoli, Donna Jo, 1948–
Hidden / Donna Jo Napoli. — First edition.
pages cm
Companion book to: Hush.
Summary: When a marauding slave ship captures her sister, Melkorka, eight-year-old Brigid is lost at sea but survives, disguised as a boy, and sets out to rescue Melkorka, and as the years pass she becomes a woman, reputed to be fierce enough to conquer a man, but desirous only of reuniting with her family.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-4424-8300-2 (hardback) — ISBN 978-1-4424-8303-3 (eBook)
[1. Voyages and travels—Fiction. 2. Princesses—Fiction. 3. Conduct of life—Fiction. 4. Coming of age—Fiction. 5. Sex role—Fiction. 6. Sisters—Fiction. 7. Middle Ages—Fiction. 8. Europe—History—10th century—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.N15Hid 2014
[Fic]—dc23
2014011732