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Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village
Contributor(s): Schlitz, Laura Amy (Author), Byrd, Robert (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0763650943     ISBN-13: 9780763650940
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
OUR PRICE:   $7.19  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 2011
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical - Medieval
- Juvenile Fiction | Performing Arts - Theater & Musicals
- Juvenile Fiction | Stories In Verse (see Also Poetry)
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 0.33" H x 6.32" W x 9.06" (0.29 lbs) 96 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453)
- Cultural Region - British Isles
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 115900
Reading Level: 5.6   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 2.0
 
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Publisher Description:
Newbery Medal Winner Step back to an English village in 1255, where life plays out in dramatic vignettes illuminating twenty-two unforgettable characters.

Maidens, monks, and millers' sons -- in these pages, readers will meet them all. There's Hugo, the lord's nephew, forced to prove his manhood by hunting a wild boar; sharp-tongued Nelly, who supports her family by selling live eels; and the peasant's daughter, Mogg, who gets a clever lesson in how to save a cow from a greedy landlord. There's also mud-slinging Barbary (and her noble victim); Jack, the compassionate half-wit; Alice, the singing shepherdess; and many more. With a deep appreciation for the period and a grand affection for both characters and audience, Laura Amy Schlitz creates twenty-two riveting portraits and linguistic gems equally suited to silent reading or performance. Illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings by Robert Byrd -- inspired by the Munich-Nuremberg manuscript, an illuminated poem from thirteenth-century Germany -- this witty, historically accurate, and utterly human collection forms an exquisite bridge to the people and places of medieval England.