{"id":8857,"date":"2022-01-12T11:38:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T16:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=8857"},"modified":"2022-01-12T11:39:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T16:39:38","slug":"363b-bronze-age-slave-girl-saves-metal-items-to-purchase-her-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/363b-bronze-age-slave-girl-saves-metal-items-to-purchase-her-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"363B: Bronze Age slave girl saves metal items to purchase her freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<p>I checked out this book from my school library when I was in upper elementary, 1971-1973, so the publishing date could be &#8217;50s, &#8217;60s, or early &#8217;70s. I seem to remember a cream colored dust jacket, with black and white illustrations inside that resembled cave drawings. The girl kept her bits of metal under her pillow to keep them safe. I seem to remember a leader wearing a cloak pinned with metal and also wearing a torc around his neck. I don&#8217;t remember any psychic abilities or romance in the plot. It&#8217;s not &#8220;The Cave Twins&#8221; or &#8220;The Distant Lurs.&#8221; (I&#8217;ve gone through *most* of the queries until my eyes crossed. &#x1f61c;) It might have been set in Britain, maybe another European country. She may have saved her owner&#8217;s clan by warning them of an imminent attack. And I think she was indeed able to purchase her freedom at the end of the story. Sorry, the details are very fuzzy but I checked the book out several times and loved it. (Probably one of the books that started my love for strong female characters.) Thanks in advance for your help!&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I checked out this book from my school library when I was in upper elementary, 1971-1973, so the publishing date could be &#8217;50s, &#8217;60s, or early &#8217;70s. I seem to remember a cream colored dust jacket, with black and white illustrations inside that resembled cave drawings. The girl kept her bits of metal under her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,10,11,4,19],"tags":[213,376],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8857"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8857"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8860,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8857\/revisions\/8860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}