The poetry of secrets

Titre
The poetry of secrets

Cambria, Gordon

Sommaire
Isabel Perez is a sixteen-year-old who dreams of writing poetry, love, and being with the young nobleman Diego Altamirano; but in Trujillo, Spain in 1481 such a love is forbidden by the boy's family because Isabel's families are conversos, new Christians, but in the privacy of their home they still practice Judaism--a secret that could destroy them all when the Inquisition reaches Trujillo and they are forced to flee to the uncertain safety of Portugal, and beyond.

Date de publication comme intervalle
2021

Description matérielle
381 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Note générale
Includes historical notes and illustrations.

Terme de vedette-matière
Marranos -- Fiction.
 
Jews -- Spain -- Trujillo (Cáceres) -- History -- Fiction.
 
Inquisition -- Spain -- Trujillo (Cáceres) -- Fiction.
 
Jews -- Portugal -- Lisbon -- History -- Fiction.
 
Inquistion -- Portugal -- Lisbon -- Fiction.
 
Secrets -- Fiction.

Terme géographique
Trujillo (Cáceres, Spain) -- History -- Fiction.
 
Lisbon (Portugal) -- History -- Fiction.

Genre
Historical fiction.
 
Young adult fiction.

Résumé
Isabel Perez is a sixteen-year-old who dreams of writing poetry, love, and being with the young nobleman Diego Altamirano; but in Trujillo, Spain in 1481 such a love is forbidden by the boy's family because Isabel's families are conversos, new Christians, but in the privacy of their home they still practice Judaism--a secret that could destroy them all when the Inquisition reaches Trujillo and they are forced to flee to the uncertain safety of Portugal, and beyond.

Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN)
9781338634181

Informations de publication
New York : Scholastic Press, 2021.
 
©2021


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