Booktalking Colorado - Full Booktalk Record

Booktalking Colorado Full Record:

	Title:	I am Morgan Le Fay
	Author:	Springer, Nancy
	Date Published:	2001
	Genre:	Fantasy
	Grade Level:	6 - 12
	Booktalker:	Sam Marsh

Booktalk:
My father was killed in a battle with the king when I was six. That night, as usual, I was unable to sleep. As I wandered the halls of our castle, I passed by the door to my parent’s suite and saw my father emerging. I rushed to him without hesitation, for my father was always happy to see me and would greet me with a hug and kind words. Not this time, however. This time, he pushed me from him and strode off towards the stables without pause. Devastated and confused, I followed. At the stable, I paused in the shadows as he met the dark wizard. The wizard dressed all in black with the emptiness where his eyes should have been. “How did it go sire?” he asked. “As well as expected,” responded the man whom I took for my father. The wizard turned to where I was hiding and smiled. “Well met Morgan,” he said to me. Then he and the man I thought to be my father rode off. It was years before I was old enough to understand what had happened. Years before I understood that my father had died in battle hours before I had the encounter with the man I had taken for my father. The man who was really the King, magiced into looking like my father by the black magician. It was years before I learned to hate the King and his line. Years before I vowed revenge for his part in my fathers death and the deception of my mother…and myself that night. Years during which I was called to Avalon where I learned that I was one of the immortal Fay. Years during which I learned about and sharpened my sorceress skills; where I became the equal, if not the superior, of the empty eyed Merlyn. Years during which the death of King Uther Pendragon robbed me of the chance of revenge upon his self. But, the death of the father was denied me, the death of the son and his kingdom would suffice. For, after all, that was my Fate. Fay, you see means Fate. And I am Morgan Le Fay.