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Leigh Bardugo

Shadow and Bone

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

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Introduction

Shadow and Bone

  • Genre: Fiction; young adult fantasy adventure/romance
  • Originally Published: 2012
  • Reading Level/Interest: Lexile 800L; grades 7-9
  • Structure/Length: Prologue, 22 chapters, and epilogue; approx. 356 pages; approx. 9 hours, 21 minutes on audio
  • Protagonist and Central Conflict: In this first book of the Shadow and Bone trilogy, teenage orphan Alina discovers she is a Sun Summoner, able to call forth light. The powerful Darkling, a Shadow Summoner and leader of the Grisha army, proposes that they collaborate for good, but she soon learns that he has other ambitions.
  • Potential Sensitivity Issues: Sexual exploitation; violence

Leigh Bardugo, Author

  • Bio: Born in 1975 in Jerusalem and grew up in Los Angeles; earned her BA in English from Yale University; worked as a copywriter and a journalist before writing her first novel; defines the genre of her Grishaverse books as Tsarpunk inspired by Tsarist Russia; writes short fiction as well as novels; sang in a band called Captain Automatic; Shadow and Bone adapted as a Netflix series
  • Other Works: Six of Crows (2015); Wonder Woman: Warbringer (2017); Ninth House (2019); King of Scars (2019)
  • Awards: Romantic Times Book Award (nominee; 2012); Goodreads Choice Award for Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (nominee; 2012); ABC New Voices Title (long-listed; 2012); Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year (long-listed; 2013)

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