At the Sign of the Star

by Katherine Sturtevant

Paperback, 2002

Status

Available

Call number

549

Publication

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) (2002), Edition: Reprint, Paperback, 144 pages

Description

In seventeenth-century London, Meg, who has little interest in cooking, needlework, or other homemaking skills, dreams of becoming a bookseller and someday inheriting her widowed father's book store.

User reviews

LibraryThing member abbylibrarian

We find Meg in 17th century London. Her father is a bookseller and Meg is determined to be a bookseller when she grows up and inherits her father's business. Her mother died when she was younger and Meg's much more interested in reading and selling books than in learning womanly ways. Then Meg's

father marries Susannah. Suddenly Meg finds herself learning to cook and sew. Worse than those arduous tasks is the fear that Susannah may bear a son who would become an heir to the business... Meg finds her future in jeopardy... Is there anything she can do to get it back?

I really enjoyed this book. The main character is really likeable- very strong female protagonist.

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LibraryThing member tygers_eye

I think this is a great bone chilling mystery about how Figgy's friend Terra disappears mysteriously because of a worthless jade horse that Mr.Chu is too proud to let them not insurance it.Out of turns is a great book about a american foreigner who has to find a way to find her friend and get her

back safely-without getting killed.

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