![]() ![]() ![]() Because although Nya can heal too, taking other people's injuries into herself, she can't transfer the pain into pynvium. Fifteen-year old Nya, on the other hand, lives a hand to mouth life on the streets, scrounging for odd jobs, kicked at by the foreigners who are now in charge. ![]() Nya's twelve-year old sister was accepted by the Healing Guild, and is safely housed in their headquarters. And in this world pain can be used as weapon. Nya's city was conquered by a foreign people when she and her sister were young, in a war that killed her parents, and more war seems close at hand. But there is a dark side to this seemingly benign process. In Nya's world, a place of conflict and conquest, Healers can shift pain, sickness, and injuries into a magical type of metal called pynvium. That is to say that, I, at least, have never before encountered the magical idea at the center of this book. The Shifter, by Janice Hardy (Balzer and Bray, HarperCollins, 2009, upper middle grade and beyond, 370 pp) is one of those books that just goes to show that fascinating ideas are still out there, waiting to be written about. ![]()
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