The Well of Sacrifice

The Well of Sacrifice
ISBN-10
0395903742
ISBN-13
9780395903742
Category
Juvenile Fiction
Pages
236
Language
English
Published
1999
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Author
Chris Eboch

Description

When a Mayan girl in ninth-century Guatemala suspects that the High Priest sacrifices anyone who stands in the way of his power, she proves herself a hero.

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