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Elaborates on the tale of "The Pied Piper," told from the point of view of a boy who is too ill to keep up when a piper spirits away the healthy children of a plague-ridden town after being cheated out of full payment for ridding Hameln of rats.
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An amazing page turner! You'll never want to put this book down. Behind each page makes you wonder what's going to happen to the main character
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, Salz is an eccentric boy with a very strong will to live. Though, sticken with cystic fibrosis, his journey is an amazing and exciting adventure to find out truely how to survive and how to defy all reality.
[An] achingly poinant story about survival and the power of love.
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(Back of the Book)
SALZ IS A BOY AFFLICTED WITH
cystic fibrosis - though in the Middle Ages in Saxony no one can identify it as such. Instead he is an outcast, living with his unfeeling father and superstitious brothers in a hovel outside Hameln. His grandmother has kept Salz alive by having him avoid the mead and beer commonly drunk by all and by teaching him how to clear his lungs.
When the townsfolk of Hameln are affected by a mold that grows on the hops - poisoning their mead and beer - Salz is one of the few who are unaffected. The mold's effect is hallucinogenic, and soon Hameln is in the grips of a plague of madness, followed by a plague of rats. It is only Salz who can proclaim the truth - although it might cost him his life.
I will say a few things of my own now. One it's really an exellent book so don't get me wrong but just the way it's written is kind of, well a head shaker. To see what I mean you just must read it.
SPOILER ALERT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Salz is an odd name and it's a special name, every letter in his name means something special that his family considered to be him.
S is for Soul's Salvation
A is for Activity and Ability
L is for Loyalty and Light Heartedness
and
Z is for Zeal in Making Money
He also remarks that the letters A, L, and Z are wishful thinking.
thats the end of my review, n_n Thanx, adieu!!
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