High School Fiction
VG/A Cushman, Karen. Alchemy and Meggy Swann. Clarion, 2010. 176 p. 9780547231846.
Meggy Swann is a young woman growing up in Elizabethan England. She has hip dysplasia and walks painfully with crutches. After her grandmother dies, her mom sends her to live with her absent father in London. He is an alchemist who has no time for anything but his work. Despite her physical difficulties, Meggy begins to make friends and a life for herself. But all of that is put in jeopardy when she overhears a nefarious plot that involves her father.
Sarah Mae Harper, CoLAPL, AC Bilbrew Library
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