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Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village

Author: Laura Amy Schlitz
Illustrator: Robert Byrd
Genre: Historical Fiction
Award: John Newbery Medal 
Grade: 5th grade and up


This book took or set in the Medieval ages. It is a collection of voices of different kind of people you will meet in a village. In the beginning, you will encounter Hugo, who will prove his manliness by hunting for a boar. Alice is the singer and herds ships and sings to them. Nelly sell eels to support her family and to make a living out of it. Barbary the mud slinger does not like taking care of the twins and thinks how all women are the same. And there are many more characters in the story.

This book is a light read but I have to reread it a couple of times because it is hard to grasp at first some of the people’s story. I would recommend this to upper grade level because it is about medieval and kind of a little for mature students. It will be better for upper level students because it has some hard vocab words that lower grade level will not understand. The illustration in this book is unique on its own because it is black and white or mainly gray color. It is a drawing and not a painting, for it consist of pencil or pen marks. It is a nice book because it tells each peoples story for survival during the Middle age and an insight on how they act and live.


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