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I Am Mordred by Nancy Springer follows Mordred, the illegitimate son of King Arthur, who is doomed by prophecy to kill his father. After being abandoned as a baby, he is raised by a fisherman's family until a sorceress takes him to his uncaring birth mother, Morgause. Struggling with his identity, Mordred eventually joins King Arthur's knights, seeking acceptance and a way to avoid his bleak destiny, only to grapple with fate's inescapable grip. The book contains themes of incest, abandonment, and self-worth struggles.