Originally published: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2006.
Summary
Fourteen-year-old Mitra, of royal Persian lineage, and her five-year-old brother Babak, whose dreams foretell the future, flee for their lives in the company of the magus Melchior and two other Zoroastrian priests, traveling through Persia as they follow star signs leading to a newly-born king in Bethlehem.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-414).
