(*) Megan Whalen Turner The Queen of Attolia 279 pp. Greenwillow 5/00 ISBN 0-688-17423-X 15.95 (Young Adult) A tense opening plunges the reader into a harrowing escape scene, as the Thief slips through secret passages and races desperately across the countryside--where both hero and reader are slammed to a sudden and unexpected halt in the darkness. Already we sense, from this first chapter, that Eugenides is a master of stealth maneuvering and should have evaded his pursuers--but something has gone horribly wrong. In the shocking scene that follows, Eugenides's hand is chopped off by order o...
