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The River Boy

Story Stats

Rating: 4
Grade Level: 5, Adult
Page count: 15

Author

Joan
Aiken

Appeared in

Smoke from Cromwell's Time and Other Stories

Story Summary

A young boy, driven out of town as a sorcerer's son, makes a life for himself in the high valley until his valley is threatened by a herd of fierce black mountain bulls.