This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2005 by Isobelle Carmody
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Published in the United States by Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in Australia as The Legend of Little Fur by Penguin Books Australia, Camberwell, in 2005.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Carmody, Isobelle.
[Legend of Little Fur]
Little Fur : the legend begins / Isobelle Carmody. — 1st American ed.
p. cm.
Originally published in Australia in 2005 under the title: The legend of Little Fur.
SUMMARY: When half-elf, half-troll Little Fur learns that servants of the troll king aim to destroy her beloved trees, she embarks on an ambitious and dangerous journey into the human world in hopes of saving not only the wilderness she calls home, but the very earth spirit itself.
[1. Elves—Fiction. 2. Voyages and travels—Fiction. 3. Magic—Fiction. 4. Trees—Fiction. 5. Ecology—Fiction. 6. Fantasy.] I. Title. II. Title: Legend begins.
PZ7.C2176Lit 2006 [Fic]—dc22 2005034547
eISBN: 978-0-375-84922-0
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