At the Sign of the Star Contributor(s): Sturtevant, Katherine (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374404585 ISBN-13: 9780374404581 Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2002 Annotation: In 17th century London, 12-year-old Meg is the motherless daughter of a bookseller with a thriving business in Restoration-era London. Meg has little interest in cooking, needlework, or other homemaking skills, and dreams of becoming a bookseller and someday inheriting her father's book store. But with her father's remarriage, Meg's dreams are thrown into confusion. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Family - Blended Families - Juvenile Fiction | Historical - Europe - Juvenile Fiction | Girls & Women |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 00020448 |
Lexile Measure: 860 |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 4.9" W x 7.9" (0.40 lbs) 144 pages |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 43276 Reading Level: 5.6 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 5.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The tale of a bookseller's daughter Meg Moore is the motherless and only child of a bookseller with a thriving business in Restoration London-and that makes her an heiress. She knows that someday she will have her pick of suitors, and that with the right husband she can continue in the book trade and be friends with wits and authors, as her father is. But Mr. Moore's unexpected marriage throws all Meg's dreams into confusion. Meg resists the overtures and edicts of her stepmother with a cleverness equaled only by her fierceness, but in spite of it all her rival's belly soon swells with what Meg fears will be her father's new heir. Meg seeks wisdom from almanacs and astrologers, plays and books of jests, guides for ladies and guides for midwives. Yet it is through her own experience that she finds a new matrimony with which to face her unknown future. This vibrant novel recreates a lively and fascinating historical period when women claimed a new and more active role in London's literary scene. |
Contributor Bio(s): Sturtevant, Katherine: - I grew up in California's Santa Clara Valley. When we moved there I was five years old, and the valley was filled with fruit orchards. The house I lived in was a big, eccentric place, built in part by my father and his friends. It had a huge brick fireplace, a screened-in porch where we ate and sometimes slept in summer, a "secret" recess in one of the bedrooms where Easter nests were always hidden, and dozens of built-in bookshelves. The house sat on three acres of land dotted with fruit trees and outbuildings. I had a dozen favorite places to lie reading. |