The Book of the Maidservant

Name: The Book of the Maidservant
Brand: Yearling
SKU: 9780375858574-PRUSDTR-US
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Edition: US - Paperback / softback

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English • Age 8 - 12

240 pages • 5.19 x 7.56 x 0.55 in

Approx. weight: 0.41 lb

Publication date: 05 Apr,2011

Barcode: 9780375858574 • Yearling

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By: Rebecca Barnhouse

Johanna is a serving girl to Dame Margery Kempe, a renowned medieval holy woman. Dame Margery feels the suffering the Virgin Mary felt for her son, but cares little for the misery she sees every day. When she announces that Johanna will accompany her on a pilgrimage to Rome, the suffering truly begins. After walking all day, Johanna must fetch water, wash clothes, and cook for the entire party of pilgrims. Then arguing breaks out between Dame Margery and the other travelers, and Johanna is caught in the middle. As the fighting escalates, Dame Margery turns her back on the whole group, including Johanna. Abandoned in a foreign land where she doesn't even speak the language, the young maidservant must find her own way to Rome.

Inspired by the15th-century text, The Book of Margery Kempe, the first autobiography in English, Rebecca Barnhouse chronicles Johanna's painful journey through fear and anger and physical hardship to ultimate redemption. Fans of Karen Cushman and other medieval historical fiction will be spellbound.