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Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
by Laura Amy Schlitz
from Candlewick Press

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• CHILDRENS BOOKS & MUSIC
• Childrens Books
• Language Arts

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! --Hear ye, hear ye...
  Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village
  These books arrived in EXCELLENT condition, and very timely at that.
  Good service is still the word of the day.
  Thanks.

• Guided Reading in Places
  When a book appears on the same Newbery Award shelf as: The Island of the Blue Dolphins, Julie of the Wolves, Number the Stars, Dear Mr. Henshaw, Sounder and and other classics, one sits up and takes notice because it means the best in children's literature. This recent addition to the honour roll, made up of narrative poems reminiscent of The Canterbury Tales, gives the young reader a real sense of what daily life was like in the Middle Ages.
  A few of the monologues deal with complex topics which may... more info

• Truly excellent!
  Winner of the 2008 Newberry Medal, Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! was actually written to be performed. Laura Amy Schlitz has written here a series of interconnected monologues and dialogues which, taken together, depict the life of kids of all kinds in a medieval village. There's the Falconer's Son, the Blacksmith's Daughter, the runaway villein, the Young Lord, The Pilgrim and The Sniggler, all of whom help complete the picture.
  

• Brilliant!
  
  The reviewers have covered it all, but such a truly great book deserves ongoing praise. How nice to see that this jewel of a book won the Newbery! Standing ovation from this reader.

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