A Season Most Unfair

Scholastica, or Tick, has grown up helping her father make candles in his shop. The experience has its ups and downs--while constantly smelling like tallow makes it hard for Tick to keep friends, stray cats love her. Still, she delights in the work and the fact that she can help Papa. Every summer, they use the long daylight hours to make as many candles as possible to sell at the Stourbridge Fair, the highlight of their year. And this year Tick is finally going to be allowed to make the special Agnus Dei charms that keep travelers safe. Because she's a girl, Tick can never be a true apprentice in the trade, but if she gets to do the job anyway, does it matter what she's called? But one morning she finds a boy sitting at her workbench. Papa has taken on an apprentice and now Tick is forbidden from helping with the candle-making. Tick isn't about to stand for this unfairness. She's going prove to Papa that she deserves to be his apprentice, even if it means sneaking away to the Fair--Amazon.com.

About the author

J. Anderson Coats has master’s degrees in history and library science and has published short stories in numerous literary magazines and anthologies. She is the author of the acclaimed novels The Wicked and the Just, The Many Reflections of Miss Jane Deming, R Is for Rebel, The Green Children of Woolpit, and The Night Ride, as well as A Season Most Unfair and The Unexpected Lives of Ordinary Girls. She lives with her family in Washington State. Visit her at JAndersonCoats.com.

Product details

• Authors: J Anderson Coats, J. Anderson Coats, Coats J. Anderson
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 10 to 99
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.08.2023
• EAN: 9781665912358
• ISBN: 978-1-6659-1235-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 367 g
• Illustrations: f-c jkt (sfx: matte w- spot gloss); digital
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; JUVENILE FICTION / Family / General, JUVENILE FICTION / Girls & Women, JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / Medieval, Historical fiction (Children's / Teenage), People & places (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage), c 500 to c 1000 CE, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Girls and women