Amber & Clay
The Newbery Medal–winning author of Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! gives readers a virtuoso performance in verse in this profoundly original epic pitched just right for fans of poetry, history, mythology, and fantasy.
Welcome to ancient Greece as only genius storyteller Laura Amy Schlitz can conjure it. In a warlike land of wind and sunlight, “ringed by a restless sea,” live Rhaskos and Melisto, spiritual twins with little in common beyond the violent and mysterious forces that dictate their lives. 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 risk her life for a season first to serve Artemis, goddess of the hunt.
Bound by destiny, Melisto and Rhaskos—Amber and Clay—never meet in the flesh. By the time they do, one of them is a ghost. But the thin line between life and death is just one boundary their unlikely friendship crosses. It takes an army of snarky gods and fearsome goddesses, slaves and masters, mothers and philosophers to help shape their story into a gorgeously distilled, symphonic tour de force.
Blending verse, prose, and illustrated archeological “artifacts,” this is a tale that vividly transcends time, an indelible reminder of the power of language to illuminate the over- and underworlds of human history.
9781501949272
9781536211733
Level 5, 13 Points
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Grouping Title | amber and clay |
Grouping Author | laura amy schlitz |
Grouping Category | book |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2024-04-23 04:41:41AM |
Last Indexed | 2024-04-23 05:48:31AM |
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9781536201222
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Fate and fatalism -- Juvenile fiction
Goddesses, Greek -- Juvenile fiction
Gods, Greek -- Juvenile fiction
Historical fiction
Novels in verse
Amber and Clay
Goddesses, Greek
Gods, Greek
Historical Fiction
Juvenile Fiction
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Poetry
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