Isabel

by Dalton, Annie; Elliott, Mark

• ISBN13: 9781584855170
• ISBN10: 1584855177
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Amer Girl Pub

Summary

In 1592, twelve-year-old Isabel dreams of adventure and finds it, not only on her journey from her London home to her aunt's manor house in Northamptonshire, but also through the healing arts her aunt teaches her.

Author Biography

Annie Dalton tells everyone that her library card saved her life. She was an only child, growing up in an English country village, and for a few years, books were her substitute friends and family. She wrote her first book, Out of the Ordinary, on an old typewriter at the kitchen table while her children were at school, and she's been writing ever since. Her novels Night Maze and The Real Tilly Beany were both shortlisted for the Carnegie medal. The Afterdark Princess won the Nottingham Oak Tree Children's award. Ms. Dalton currently lives in a converted apartment in an old house in the Suffolk countryside. She has one son, two daughters, and one grandchild.

Table of Contents

A Kindred Spirit	1	(13)
``Lullay My Liking''	14	(19)
Sabine's Secret	33	(15)
Isabel Steals a Boat	48	(18)
Banished!	66	(13)
Brigands on the Road	79	(8)
A Voice in the Dark	87	(11)
An Actor Born	98	(10)
A Merlin for a Lady	108	(24)
The Plague Mask	132	(19)
City of Ghosts	151	(14)
The Limitless Sky	165	(8)
Then and Now	173