Spider's Voice

Gloria Skurzynski

Tandem Library, 2001 - Fiction - 234 pages

This coming of age story about a mute boy named Spider, set in medieval France, shows brutality and harsh times of the 12th century while surrounding the famous love story of Abelard and Heloise, two of Europe's most educated and passionate individuals.

About the author

Author Gloria Skurzynski was born in Duquesne, Pennsylvania in 1930. She was educated at Carlow University. She writes both fiction and non-fiction books for children and young adults.She is the author of more than sixty books for young readers. In 1992, her work Almost the Real Thing: Simulation in Your High-Tech World won the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award. She writes the National Geographic National Parks series and the Virtual War Chronologs series.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Spider's Voice
• Author: Gloria Skurzynski
• Publisher: Tandem Library, 2001
• ISBN: 0613349709, 9780613349703
• Length: 234 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Historical / General; Juvenile Fiction / Historical / Medieval; Juvenile Fiction / Love & Romance; Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / Europe