Laura Amy Schlitz: Exclusive Candlewick Press Sampler

About this book

The sampler includes chapters from three of Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz’s celebrated A Drowned Maiden’s Hair, Splendors & Glooms, and The Hired Girl.A Drowned Maiden’s HairA feisty orphan is taken in by a band of phony spiritualists in this intriguing, engaging novel.Splendors & GloomsLaura Amy Schlitz brings her sorcery to a Victorian gothic thriller — an enthralling, darkly comic tale that would do Dickens proud.The Hired GirlLaura Amy Schlitz brings her delicious wit and keen eye to early twentieth-century America in a moving yet comedic tour de force.