The Brothers Story.
Sturtevant, Katherine (author).
Nov. 2009. 288p. Farrar, hardcover, $16.99 (9780374309923). Grades 9-12.
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First published November 1, 2009 (Booklist).
Kit longs to rise in the world but to do so would mean leaving his Essex village for London Town and abandoning his twin brother, Christy, who is “simple” and cannot care for himself. Yet the terrible privations of the Great Frost of 1683–84, the coldest winter in England’s history, may leave the increasingly desperate 15-year-old no choice. In giving us Kit’s story, with its echoes of the Biblical tale of Joseph and hi...
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