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Cushman, Karen

Alchemy and Meggy Swann

167 pp. | Clarion | April, 2010 | Trade ISBN 978-0-547-23184-6 $16.00
(2) 4-6 Thirteen-year-old Meggy, who walks with the help of sticks, moves to London. Her alchemist father rejects then ignores her, leaving Meggy to fend for herself. Cushman creates a prickly, resourceful, and ultimately triumphant young woman. She incorporates specific details of daily life in Elizabethan England unobtrusively into the story; little funny touches help balance out the grimly realistic ones.
Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2010

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