The Sterkarm Handshake (1998) – Susan Price
Scholastic Point, 384 pages, ISBN 9780439978965
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AWARDS:
Guardian Fiction Prize, 1999
Carnegie Medal Finalist
Annotation: When a 21st century corporation funds a time travel device for the purpose of ravaging the 16th century’s gold and natural resources, the local Sterkarm clan decides this means war.
Booktalk: Sure, in the 21st century you’re just another average-looking, slightly overweight girl, but in the 16th century, you’re every young man’s idea of the perfect woman. You understand these people, the Sterkarms, even though they’re warlike and sometimes deceitful. But are they any worse than the 21st century corporation who sent you to talk them out of their gold and precious resources? Could you betray the corporation and spend the rest of your life in the 16th century? There’s certainly a young man there who would be happy if you did. If you stay, you’ve betrayed the corporation and can never go home. If you leave, you’ve become a part of ruining the Sterkarm way of life forever. What choice will you make?
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