Secrets in the house of Delgado
By: Gloria D. Miklowitz.
Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, MI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Jews -- Spain -- History -- Expulsion, 1492 -- Juvenile fiction; Marranos -- Juvenile fiction; Jews -- Spain -- History -- Expulsion, 1492 -- Fiction; Marranos -- Fiction; Prejudices -- Fiction; Identity -- Fiction; Inquisition -- Spain -- Fiction; Orphans -- Fiction; Spain -- History -- Ferdinand and Isabella, 1479-1516 -- Juvenile fiction; Spain -- History -- Ferdinand and Isabella, 1479-1516 -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: In Spain in 1492, fourteen-year-old Maria, a Catholic orphan, becomes a servant to a wealthy family of Conversos, converted Jews, at a time when the Jews are being expelled from the country and when the Inquisition is diligently searching for religious heretics.