Schlitz, Laura Amy
Summary: A novel in verse relates the story of Rhaskos and Melisto, one a common slave and the other a spoiled aristocrat, who are bound together by fate and form an unlikely friendship that crosses the boundary of life and death.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fantasy, Call number: JT Fantasy Schlitz 2021Schlitz, Laura Amy
Summary: Princess Cora is sick of boring lessons. She's sick of running in circles around the dungeon gym. She's sick, sick, sick of taking three baths a day. And her parents won't let her have a dog. But when she writes to her fairy godmother for help, she doesn't expect that help to come in the form of a crocodile--a crocodile who does not behave properly.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: JE CD Schlitz 2017Schlitz, Laura Amy
Summary: A Thracian slave in a Greek household, Rhaskos is as common as clay, a stable boy worth less than a donkey, much less a horse. Wrenched from his mother at a tender age, he nurtures in secret, aided by Socrates, his passions for art and philosophy. Melisto is a spoiled aristocrat, a girl as precious as amber but willful and wild. She'll marry and be tamed--the curse of all highborn girls--but...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SCHSchlitz, Laura Amy
Summary: Unhappy queen-in-training Cora receives a pet crocodile from her fairy godmother, who disrupts her mundane daily routine.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017