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Synopsis
Despite strange dreams and her ailing father's firm belief in the family lore of a long-ago ancestor's connection to the mythical unicorn, fifteen-year-old New Yorker Elayne remains skeptical until, during a school visit to the unicorn tapestries in the Cloisters, she finds herself entering a tumulteous world where she must fulfill the legacy of her ancestors by taming the unicorn and bringing a tyrant to justice.
Is The Hunt of the Unicorn appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 10 and up.
A fifteen-year-old girl enters a magical world through medieval tapestries and must fulfill an ancient prophecy involving a unicorn. Light adventure peril appropriate for middle grade readers with fantasy themes of tyranny and justice.
What to know going in
This book has mild violence, no sexual content, and clean language.
Who'll love this
A skeptical New York teen discovers her family's unicorn legend is real and gets swept into a magical quest through famous museum tapestries.