Her world shifts dramatically when a stranger gives her a sorry-looking baby macaw. 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.” She escapes to her huaca rock, avoiding the villagers who shun her. “ quiet, deeply moving story.” - The Bulletin Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J.

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'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title. Despite the element of shamanism and Micay's communication with spirits, her transformation is subtle and pragmatic as she evolves from fearful outsider to empowered individual.

Micay's intimate narration weaves in Quechua vocabulary and abundant references to Incan folklore, enhancing the novel's vivid sense of time and place.

Micay leaves her 'wasi' (one-room home) to explore and study with Paqo, a 'mighty shaman' from Cuzco. Inspired by the author's travels to Peru, Ellis's coming-of-age tale follows the small but significant story of 12-year-old Incan girl named Micay, who is shunned by her community because of 'the deep scar that ran like a river from my right eye down my cheek to my lip and lowered my mouth in a permanent half frown.' That changes, however, when a 'jungle stranger' comes to town and gives her a scruffy baby macaw named Sumac Huanacauri ('Handsome Rainbow'), who protects her from her tormentor Ucho's cruelty and teaches her to free herself from doubt, as well as accept that she may be destined for a greater purpose.

The Ugly One by Leanne Statland Ellis