Lost in the Labyrinth

Last night I saw my sister, who is dead. She stood at the end of a long corridor, weeping. "Can it really be you, Ariadne, come back after all this time?" I whispered. She did not answer, but began slowly to sink through the floor.

Princess Xenodice is content to spend her days tending to the animals in the royal menagerie, haunting the workshop of a beautiful young man named Icarus, and visiting her brother who lives in the Labyrinth. Her safe and privileged world, however, has ominous cracks underfoot.
Soon battles for power and revenge threaten everything Xenodice loves. Betrayals from both within and without her family lead to a series of tragedies that Xenodice struggles to avert.
From the deepest layer of the Labyrinth under the Royal Palace to the topmost floor of the prison tower, this enthralling version of the myth of the maze and the Minotaur by master storyteller Patrice Kindl is filled with the marvelous and the strange.


Author: Patrice Kindl
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 09/01/2005
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780618394029

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.2
Point Value: 7
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 65430 / Lost in the Labyrinth


Review Citation(s):
Ingram Children's Advance 10/01/2005 pg. 70
School Library Journal 02/01/2006 pg. 62

About the Author
Patrice Kindl's first novel, Owl in Love, was an ALA Notable Book for Children, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, and an SCBWI Golden Kite Award Honor Book. She lives in Middleburgh, New York.