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Dickinson, Peter , Dickinson, Peter

The Tears of the Salamander

199 pp. | Random/Lamb | August, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-385-73098-5 $$16.95 | Library ISBN 0-385-90125-9 $$18.99
(2) 4-6 Alfredo's family has just perished in a catastrophic fire, and the cathedral priests are pressuring the boy to preserve his singing voice by submitting to castration (acceptable in eighteenth-century Italy). Instead, mysterious Uncle Giorgio spirits him away to the ancestral home where much is amiss. With its dramatic, beautifully described setting, intricate supernatural mystery, and hairsbreadth escapes, the story is mesmerizing.
Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2003

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