At the House of the Magician
Author: Hooper, Mary
Reading Age: 10 to 11 Fifth Class, 13+ Teenage YA
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Illustrator: n/a
ISBN-13: 9780747588863
Number of pages: 240
Product Description
Lucy has been forced to run away from home as she fears for her safety from her drunken father. She is taken on as a maid at the house of Dr Dee, court magician, upon whom... Read more
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Lucy has been forced to run away from home as she fears for her safety from her drunken father. She is taken on as a maid at the house of Dr Dee, court magician, upon whom Elizabeth I relies heavily, even down to advising the date of her coronation. The household is strange and sinister, and Lucy has a nose for intrigue …And she has more than enough to satisfy her: Lucy stumbles across a plot to assassinate the queen and has to find means to warn her…
Review
‘Contains real and fictitious characters, full of detail of life at the time, paints a good picture of Elizabethan life’
–Books for Keeps, No 175, March 2009
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