More than tea is brewing as feuds create more troubles and obstacles to a much needed victory.Ī Venom Dark and Sweet is the exciting conclusion of Ms. Along with the other challenges of the competition, Ning might be in mortal danger.

There is also a handsome and mysterious boy who harbors a shocking secret. This is her first competition so she isn’t prepared for the bloody politics in court and the backstabbing amongst competitors. The winner of the kingdom’s greatest Shennong-shi will receive from the crown princess a magical favor, which could be Ning’s only chance to save her sister, Shu. Ning lost her mother when she unknowingly gave her a poison tea and her sister’s life is hanging in the balance from the same poison.

It is likely the only chance to save her sister, Shu. This is more than a simple contest for her. Ning travels to the imperial city to compete with masters of the ancient, venerated art of tea making. Blending magic and Chinese tea to create the first novel, A Magic Steeped in Poison, we are introduced to the world the ancient and magical art of Shennong-shi- tea making. Lin is an exciting new author with the fascinating, highly praised Book of Tea “duology” of stories for Young Adults. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.July I. McConnell, San Antonio Public LibraryĬopyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. Kay's relocation to the present and her budding romance with the young man in the nearby apartment is a satisfying outcome, with time-travel still an option. Despite some plot weaknesses and patches of graceless writing (and Kay's speech made more colloquial than Aherne's to underscore the time-gap), this reads and paces well. Melling's interpretation of Celtic themes is ingenious and inventive, and the device of restoring the De Danaan to their lost status as gods is magically imagined. Ultimately, their quest will redeem the ancestors and reconcile warring invaders and settlersmoral concerns that mirror modern ones. She and a De Danaan foundling, Aherne, are charged with finding the lost treasures of the De Danaans. Following anonymous clues and increasingly strong dream-visions, modern-day Kay travels to Ireland and enters the Bronze-Age. Grade 6-8 A time-fantasy and coming-of-age romance in which orphan Kay seeks her origins and finds her ancestors in a supernatural past.

The Singing Stone by O.R. Melling