cover image A Parcel of Patterns

A Parcel of Patterns

Jill Paton Walsh. Farrar Straus Giroux, $7.99 (144pp) ISBN 978-0-374-45743-3

In a boxed review, PW lauded this ``beautifully written, meaningful story''--based on a 17th-century English event--about suffering, heroism and cowardice during an outbreak of the plague in a Derbyshire village. Ages 12-up. (Sept.)