The unfortunate son
By: by Constance Leeds
Publisher: Viking Childrens Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780670013982
Subjects: Kidnapping; Human Abnormalities; Slavery; Fiction; Fishing; Luck; Identity; History
Description: Luc, a youth born with one ear and raised by a drunken father in fifteenth-century France, finds a better home with fisherman Pons, his sister Mattie, and their ward Beatrice, the daughter of a disgraced knight, and even after being kidnapped and sold into slavery in Africa, he remains remarkably fortunate.