Pub Date: September 24, 2007
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: 10 to 12
Physical Info: 0.63" H x 8.07" L x 6.35" W ( 0.57 lbs) 240 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Historical | Renaissance | Love and Romance | Art | Biographical | Europe | Girls and Women | Social Themes | Adolescence and Coming of Age | SelfEsteem and SelfReliance
Description: In lush, glowing prose, Hawess historical novel draws readers into the life and art of 16th-century Bologna with a compelling account of Lavinia Fontana, arguably the most famous female painter of the Italian Renaissance.
Brief description:
Louise Hawes is the author of many novels for young adults and is also a faculty member of the Spalding University MFA in Writing program. She has always loved fairy tales and says that Black Pearls was written for "everyone who dances without looking at the clock." She lives in North Carolina.
Review Quotes:
Fans of historical fiction will lose themselves in Hawes' sumptuously evoked Renaissance Italy, and aspiring artists will respond to Vini's amazement at "how full of drawings the world is." --Booklist, ALA, Boxed Review Hawes takes what is known of her (Lavinia Fontana, daughter of the painter Prospero Fontana) life and creates a fictionalized tale of a complicated adolescence. --Kirkus Reviews This book is a good choice for middle school students and will appeal especially to girls who can relate to its strong, female protagonist. --VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates)