Alchemy and Meggy Swann

Resource Information

The work Alchemy and Meggy Swann represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in South Whitley Community Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Audio, Nonmusical, Sounds, Music.

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Label

Alchemy and Meggy Swann

Statement of responsibility

Karen Cushman

Creator

• Cushman, Karen
• trueCushman, Karen

Contributor

• Listening Library
• Kellgren, Katherine

Narrator

• Kellgren, Katherine

Subject

• trueAlchemy
• trueHistorical fiction
• trueGirls and geese
• People with disabilities -- Fiction
• trueGirls
• trueAlchemists
• trueGeese
• Alchemy -- Juvenile fiction
• Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 -- Fiction
• People with disabilities -- Juvenile fiction
• trueFathers and daughters
• Poverty -- Juvenile fiction
• trueGirls with disabilities
• Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
• London (England) -- History -- 16th century -- Fiction
• Children's audiobooks
• trueTudor period (1485-1603) -- 1485 -- 1603
• Fathers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction
• Poverty -- Fiction
• trueLondon, England -- History -- 16th century
• Historical fiction
• London (England) -- History -- 16th century -- Juvenile fiction
• Alchemy -- Fiction
• Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 -- Juvenile fiction
• trueGreat Britain -- History -- Elizabeth I, 1558-1603
• truePoverty
• trueElizabethan era (1558-1603) -- 1558 -- 1603
• true16th century -- 1501 -- 1600

Genre

• Fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• Children's audiobooks
• trueHistorical fiction

Language

eng

Summary

In 1573, the crippled, scorned, and destitute Meggy Swann goes to London, where she meets her father, an impoverished alchemist, and eventually discovers that although her legs are bent and weak, she has many other strengths

Theme

• trueLiving with visible disability

Storyline

• trueCharacter-driven

Writing style

• trueStylistically complex
• trueDialect-filled

Character

• trueAbility diverse

Audio

• trueDistinctly voiced
• trueCrisp
• trueWell-characterized
• trueEmotionally connected
• trueCharacter accents

Award

• ALSC Notable Children's Recording
• Booklist Editors' Choice: Audio for Youth
• YALSA Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults, 2011.

Awards note

Odyssey Honor, 2011.

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Dewey number

[Fic]

Form of composition

not applicable

Format of music

not applicable

LC call number

PZ7.C962

LC item number

Al 2010

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

810

Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 5
• 8

Music parts

not applicable

PerformerNote

Read by Katherine Kellgren

Target audience

pre adolescent

Transposition and arrangement

not applicable