Alchemy and Meggy Swann
By: by Karen Cushman.
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780547231846
Subjects: People with disabilities -- Fiction; Alchemy -- Fiction; Poverty -- Fiction; Fathers and daughters -- Fiction; London (England) -- History -- 16th century -- Fiction; Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: In 1573, the crippled, scorned, and destitute Meggy Swann goes to London, where she meets her father, an impoverished alchemist, and eventually discovers that although her legs are bent and weak, she has many other strengths.