The Remarkable & Very True Story of Lucy & Snowcap

ISBN	9780761454410

Specifications

5 1/2" X 8 1/4"; 288 pages

Author(s)

H. M. Bouwman

Ages	Ages 10 and up

List Price

US$ 16.99

About the Book
Set on fictional islands off northeast America in 1787, this story features two twelve-year-old girls from different cultures who must join forces to save themselves, their people, and one special baby. It’s part historical (based on convicts who were sent to the Americas and Australia) and part fantasy. Above all, it’s a captivating adventure in the tradition of The Princess Bride with shipwrecks, curses, chases, murder plots, magic (of all kinds), romantic legends, thieves and politicians (sometimes both), a caring schoolteacher and a handsome horse groom, a pair of feisty (sometimes difficult) heroines, and the mysterious power of story-telling at its center!

	"The midwife told Lucy to take her newborn brother to the Lifestone Garden and leave him there to die. Lucy had known this might happen, but still she hadn’t really expected it, had even wished against it, though she never would have admitted that kind of weakness to anyone. As if wishing could change anything. Climbing the mountain to the garden, she thought back on the long events of this long day—how it all might have gone differently, if only the baby had been a girl or if the Colay didn’t live on a cursed island or if they weren’t Colay or if the Anglish had never come to their land."

H. M. Bouwman lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. Learn more about the author at www.hmbouwman.com.


"Fantasy meets historical reality in this rewarding and extraordinarily original adventure story of two headstrong girls thrown together by chance, united by uncommon enemies, and faced with impossible odds. A joy to read."
— Pete Hautman, National Book Award-Winning Author