Title: Elvina's mirror
First published: 2009
Description: In 1097 Troyes, France, fourteen-year-old Elvina reaches out to a shunned family of German Jews, eventually drawing her grandfather, Bible and Talmud scholar Solomon ben Isaac, into helping her new friend's cousin Ephraim, whose memories of the Crusaders' cruelty have driven him mad.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Jews, Crusades, Juvenile fiction, Persecutions, Sex role, Children's fiction, Jews, history, fiction, Crusades, fiction, Sex role, fiction, France, history, fiction
Places: France, Troyes (France)
People: Rashi (1040-1105)
Time periods: 11th century, First, 1096-1099
LC classification: PZ7.W4333 Elv 2009