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Vanishing Point by Louise Hawes and Mary Sharratt (2004, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

ISBN-100618434232

ISBN-139780618434237

eBay Product ID (ePID)30527414

Product Key Features

Book TitleVanishing Point

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2004

TopicGeneral, Historical / Renaissance, People & Places / Europe

IllustratorYes

GenreJuvenile Fiction

AuthorLouise Hawes, Mary Sharratt

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight15.2 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience

LCCN2004-007573

ReviewsFans of historical fiction will lose themselves in Hawes' sumptuously evoked Renaissance Italy, and aspiring artists will respond to Vini's amazement at "how full of drawings the world is." -Booklist, ALA, Boxed Review Hawes takes what is known of her (Lavinia Fontana, daughter of the painter Prospero Fontana) life and creates a fictionalized tale of a complicated adolescence. -Kirkus Reviews This book is a good choice for middle school students and will appeal especially to girls who can relate to its strong, female protagonist. -VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates), "[D]escriptions of techniques...are carefully presented. This story is unique." KLIATT 11/01/07 KLIATT, Fans of historical fiction will lose themselves in Hawes' sumptuously evoked Renaissance Italy, and aspiring artists will respond to Vini's amazement at "how full of drawings the world is.", Hawes takes what is known of her (Lavinia Fontana, daughter of the painter Prospero Fontana) life and creates a fictionalized tale of a complicated adolescence., This book is a good choice for middle school students and will appeal especially to girls who can relate to its strong, female protagonist., Fans of historical fiction will lose themselves in Hawes' sumptuously evoked Renaissance Italy, and aspiring artists will respond to Vini's amazement at "how full of drawings the world is." Booklist, ALA, Boxed Review Hawes takes what is known of her (Lavinia Fontana, daughter of the painter Prospero Fontana) life and creates a fictionalized tale of a complicated adolescence. Kirkus Reviews This book is a good choice for middle school students and will appeal especially to girls who can relate to its strong, female protagonist. VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates)

TitleLeadingThe

Grade FromFifth Grade

Dewey DecimalFIC

Grade ToSeventh Grade

SynopsisIt is while I stitch together the Queen's gown, on the night her eldest daughter is to die, that I first sense an uneasy power. On the eve of Princess Sophia's wedding, the Scandinavian city of Skyggehavn prepares to fete the occasion with a sumptuous display of riches. Yet beneath the veneer of celebration, a shiver of darkness creeps through the palace halls. A mysterious illness plagues the royal family, threatening the lives of the throne's heirs, and a courtier's wolfish hunger for the king's favors sets a devious plot in motion. Here in the palace at Skyggehavn, things are seldom as they seem ? and when a single errant prick of a needle sets off a series of events that will alter the course of history, the fates of seamstress Ava Bingen and mute nursemaid Midi Sorte become irrevocably intertwined. As they navigate a tangled web of palace intrigue, power-lust, and deception, Ava and Midi must carve out their own survival any way they can., In lush, glowing prose, Louise Hawes's historical novel draws readers into the life and art of sixteenth-century Bologna with a compelling account of Lavinia Fontana, arguably the most famous female painter of the Italian Renaissance. Here readers will find a coming-of-age story filled with quest, complication, and catastrophe as well as miracles and hope. Although the novel is set four hundred years ago, the hard choices it involves speak to all times, all places, and are sure to tap into readers' own conflicts between head and heart, real life and dreams.

LC Classification NumberPZ7.H3126Van 2004