by Katherine Marsh
Around the Year Reading Challenge Item #32: A historical fiction bookBy focusing on an obscure historical personage -- a mere footnote to more "important" figures -- this book avoids the sweeping generalizations and summaries that often put me off historical fiction. Instead, we get an intimate look...
I've been waffling between 3 and 4 stars on this one, but decided to round up because it is a Teen book that IS NOT IN A SERIES.Jepp is a 16 year old dwarf living and working in his mother's inn. One day a stranger comes along and convinces him to move out and become a court dwarf at Coudenburg Pal...
Fascinating book that was inspired by Historical dwarf jesters in the 1500's. It is about a dwarf named Jepp, who under mystery of circumstances is taken to learn the trade of pleasing an infanta and the court. You learn of his hardships, his intelligent, his charms, and most of all, the struggle of...
So good - review to come!
Set in the Spanish Netherlands and Denmark in the late 16th century, this story follows Jepp of Astraveld. Based on historical truths, we follow Jepp as he leaves the village inn he was raised in to become an entertainer in the court of the Spanish Infanta, and later, a court jester. All the while h...
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