Canadian Library Association Book of the Year, Honour Book Geoffrey
Bilson Award for Historical Fiction, Honour Book Mr. Christie Silver
Book Award Ruth Schwartz Award, finalist Manitoba Young Readers_
Choice Award, nominee Rocky Mountain Book Award, nominee Before Micah
came to St. Luc's, he knew how to beg, how to steal, and how to run
from a beating. He did not know how to comb his hair, walk in line
when he felt like running, or obey anyone's whim but his own. He was
a stranger in a strange land. If it had been me, I would have found a
way to disappear inside myself until the strangeness wore off. Micah
was not like me. Henri has been living within abbey walls all his
life, first in the care of nuns, then as a choirboy at St. Luc's, not
far from Paris. He expects to spend the rest of his life there,
copying books in the Scriptorium with the other brothers, and singing
Mass in the great cathedral. Then Micah arrives, a streetwise
ragamuffin with the voice of an angel, saved from certain hanging to
sing for God instead of coins. Micah comes like a fresh breeze into
dead places, bringing exuberant joy at a time when Henri most needs
it. For the plague is coming, the grim reaper that will slash at the
very roots of Henri's security. And neither Henri nor Micah nor
anyone else in their world will ever be the same.
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