Dreamfisher

By Nancy Springer

Ostracized for speaking her mind and standing up against a man she doesn't wish to marry, a young girl is cast out of her village and forced to fend for herself in the mountains. When she ventures too closely to a lake and nearly drowns, she is rescued by a man from Athens who introduces himself as Herodotus. What transpires after the rescue is an education for the young girl, providing names for the things that surround her. When an encounter with a fish leads her to discover her own true name, she soon discovers the gift she can take back to her village to be accepted once again. A short story.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Untreed Reads
• Release date: Jul 25, 2012
• ISBN: 9781611873955

Nancy Springer

NANCY SPRINGER is the author of the nationally bestselling Enola Holmes novels, including The Case of the Missing Marquess, which was made into the hit Netflix movie, Enola Holmes. She is the author of more than 50 other books for children and adults. She has won many awards, including two Edgar Awards, and has been published in more than thirty countries. She lives in Florida.

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Dreamfisher

By Nancy Springer

Copyright 2012 by Nancy Springer

Cover Copyright 2012 by Ginny Glass and Untreed Reads Publishing

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Previously published in print as Perchance to Dream, February 2000.

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Dreamfisher

By Nancy Springer

…except for the inhabitants of a nameless mountain in Barbary, who themselves have no names; nor have they dreams. (From a fragment attributed to Herodotus.)

They lived on the mountainside very simply, the men hunting meat, the women gathering nuts and berries, the