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Amber & Clay
- Author
- Schlitz, Laura Amy, author.
- Title
- Amber & Clay / Laura Amy Schlitz ; with illustrations by Julia Iredale.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- First edition.
- Published
- Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2021. ©2021
- Description
- 532 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other contributors
- Iredale, Julia, illustrator.
- Variant title
- Amber and Clay
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 528-532).
- Summary
- "In a warlike land of wind and sunlight, "ringed by a restless sea," live Rhaskos and Melisto, spiritual twins with little in common beyond the violent and mysterious forces that dictate their lives. A Thracian slave in a Greek household, Rhaskos is as common as clay, a stable boy worth less than a donkey, much less a horse. Wrenched from his mother at a tender age, he nurtures in secret, aided by Socrates, his passions for art and philosophy. Melisto is a spoiled aristocrat, a girl as precious as amber but willful and wild. She'll marry and be tamed--the curse of all highborn girls--but risk her life for a season first to serve Artemis, goddess of the hunt. Bound by destiny, Melisto and Rhaskos--Amber and Clay--never meet in the flesh. By the time they do, one of them is a ghost. But the thin line between life and death is just one boundary their unlikely friendship crosses."-- Publisher's description
- Subject headings
- Gods, Greek--Juvenile fiction. Goddesses, Greek--Juvenile fiction. Fate and fatalism--Juvenile fiction.
- Genre heading
- Young adult fiction. Young adult works. Fantasy fiction. Fiction. Historical fiction. Juvenile works. Fantasy fiction. Historical fiction. Novels in verse. Fantasy fiction. Historical fiction.
- ISBN
- 9781536201222 hardcover 1536201227 hardcover