Laura Amy Schlitz

"In a warlike land of wind and sunlight, 'ringed by a restless sea,' live Rhaskos and Melisto, spiritual twins with little in common beyond the violent and mysterious forces that dictate their lives. A Thracian slave in a Greek household, Rhaskos is as common as clay, a stable boy worth less than a donkey, much less a horse. Wrenched from his mother at a tender age, he nurtures in secret, aided by Socrates, his passions for art and philosophy. Melisto...

Publisher Annotation: Princess Cora is sick of boring lessons. She?s sick of running in circles around the dungeon gym. She?s sick, sick, sick of taking three baths a day. And her parents won?t let her have a dog. But when she writes to her fairy godmother for help, she doesn?t expect that help to come in the form of a crocodile?a crocodile who does not behave properly. With perfectly paced dry comedy, children?s book luminaries Laura Amy Schlitz...

A biography of the archaeologist who discovered the lost city of Troy. Archaeologist? Mythmaker? Crook? This engaging, illustrated biography of Heinrich Schliemann - a nineteenth-century romantic who most believe did find the ancient city of Troy - reveals him to be a fascinating mixture of all three. From the time Heinrich Schliemann was a boy - or so he said - he knew he was destined to dig for lost cities and find buried treasure. And if Schliemann...