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Sisters of Glass
By HEMPHILL, Stephanie
- ISBN
- 978-0-375-86109-3 978-0-375-96109-0 978-0-375-89701-6
- Publisher
- Knopf.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 2012 | Grades 5-up
Gr 7–10—In 15-century Italy, girls have few options beyond following the path laid out for them by society and their families. As Maria, the younger daughter of a Murano glassblowing family, inches closer to marrying age, 15, she begins to realize the implications of her father's dying wish that she, and not her sister, Giovanna, should marry a nobleman. Maria feels ill-suited to such a life, and beautiful, re...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2012
Before his death, their father, a respected glassblower, declared that younger daughter Maria marry Venetian nobility, leaving elder Giovanna to...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
