Candlewick

9781536201222

STARRED REVIEW

Amber & Clay

Amber & Clay transports young readers to ancient Greece, a place with serious inequality and injustice where young people could become part of history.

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Review of ‘Amber & Clay’

Laura Amy Schlitz’s Newbery Medal-winning novel, Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!, immersed readers in the sights, sounds and smells of medieval life, warts and all. Her masterfully constructed Amber & Clay transports young readers to ancient Greece, a place with serious inequality and injustice where young people could become part of history and where…

Interview with Laura Amy Schlitz

Newbery Medalist Amy Schlitz shares what it was like to visit Greece and try learning Greek in order to write her inventive middle grade novel, Amber & Clay.

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