The Christmas Stone
Flores, Richard A
Abandoned at the age of two, Brân Finch anxiously waits for a family to take him in. But each year, the Elfin boy is passed over for other orphans.Can it be that his eerie resemblance to the evil sorceress Maggie Crow has something to do with it?Brân leaves the orphanage and ends up roaming from village to village picking pockets in order to survive. On one occasion, he is forced to escape from five village guards by jumping into a raging rive...