Katherine Sturtevant
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In London during the 1680s, sixteen year old Meg Moore tries to decide whether to marry between the two men who court her, taking into account both love and her writing ambitions. Meg writes her own stories and, eventually, learns exactly how powerful words can be. The day her best friend's brother, Edward, sets sail for Italy, Meg scoffs at his attempts at romance by answering him with a thoughtless jest. Soon news travels to London that Edward's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Teenage twins Kit and Christy have grown up amid grinding poverty in their Essex village. As Christy has been "simple" from birth, Kit is literally his brother's keeper. But the latest hardships visited upon their country home by the Great Frost of 1683—84 bring Kit to frustration and despair, and he abandons Christy to make his way to London, seeking to better himself. There he finds work as an apprentice to a struggling artist and much else to...