Bibliograph

Type

Label

The Ugly One

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

810L, Lexile

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The Ugly One

Nature of contents

dictionaries

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader AR, MG, 5.5, 8, 158773.

Summary

I had always been ugly, as far back as I could remember. Micay has a deep scar that runs like a river from her right eye to her lip. The boys in her Incan village bully her because of it, and most of the adults ignore her. So she keeps to herself and tries to hide the scar with her long hair, drawing comfort from her family and her faith in the Sun God, Inti. Then a stranger traveling from his jungle homeland to the Sacred Sun City at Machu Picchu gives her a baby macaw, and the path of her life changes. Perhaps she isn't destined to be the Ugly One forever. Vivid storytelling and rich details capture the life and landscape of the Incan Empire as seen through the eyes of a young girl who is an outsider among her own people

Target audience

juvenile

Classification