The unfortunate son

Luc, a youth born with one ear and raised by a drunken father in fifteenth-century France, finds a better home with fisherman Pons, his sister Mattie, and their ward Beatrice, the daughter of a disgraced knight, and even after being kidnapped and sold into slavery in Africa, he remains remarkably fo...

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Main Author: Leeds, Constance.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Viking, 2012.
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Summary: Luc, a youth born with one ear and raised by a drunken father in fifteenth-century France, finds a better home with fisherman Pons, his sister Mattie, and their ward Beatrice, the daughter of a disgraced knight, and even after being kidnapped and sold into slavery in Africa, he remains remarkably fortunate.
Physical Description: 302 p. : map ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9780670013982 (hardcover)
0670013986 (hardcover)
Author Notes: Constance Leeds (1950 - 2012) was also the author of The Silver Cup , winner of the IRA's 2008 Children's and Young Adult Book Award in the Intermediate Fiction category. She lived in Boston, Massachusetts.