A] quiet, deeply moving story.
Told in an engaging storyteller\'s voice, this is a stirring tale of a girl who finds her own strength..
The bird becomes her dear companion on a journey that ultimately leads her to a new role as shaman in Machu Picchu\'s Sacred Sun City.
Her world shifts dramatically when a stranger gives her a sorry-looking baby macaw.
She escapes to her huaca rock, avoiding the villagers who shun her. -- The Bulletin Twelve-year-old Micay walks around her fifteenth-century Incan village shielding the scarred side of her face that inspired the cruel name Millay, or Ugly One.
A] quiet, deeply moving story