Title: The tears of the salamander
First published: 2003
Description: When Alfredo, a twelve-year-old choir boy in eighteenth-century Italy, loses his family in a fire, he goes to live with Uncle Giorgio, who he discovers is a sorcerer in control of the fires of Mt. Etna with sinister plans for his nephew.
Subjects: Magic, Uncles, Fire, Orphans, Fiction, Salamanders, Singing, History
Places: Etna, Mount (Italy), Italy, Mount (Italy) Etna
Time periods: 18th century
LC classification: PZ7.D562 Te 2003