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Laura Amy Schlitz

Amber and Clay

By Laura Amy Schlitz - Published 2021

Genres:

Ancient Greece. Melisto is the wild, young daughter of an aristocrat, beloved by her father and abused by her mother. Rhaskos is a ...Read Review

The Hired Girl

By Laura Amy Schlitz - Published 2015

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

The Hired Girl is a completely delightful story of Joan Skraggs, younger sister of Matthew, Mark and Luke. She lives a wretched life ...Read Review

Splendors and Glooms

By Laura Amy Schlitz - Published 2012

Genres:

Children/Young Adult Thriller

The title of this upper-middle-grade novel derives from Percy Shelley’s poem “Adonais”: “And others came … Desires and Adorations, / Winged Persuasions and veiled ...Read Review

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village

By Laura Amy Schlitz - By Robert Byrd (illus.) - Published 2007

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This is a lovely book of miniature plays and monologues the author wrote for her students to better facilitate their understanding of the ...Read Review