New York: Clarion / Houghton Mifflin, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel for older children and young adults by this Newbery Award winning author, set in Elizabethan England. Meggy has been summoned to London from the country town where she was raised, by her alchemist father. Not only does she find London dirty and teeming with thieves, she feels unwanted by her father also. Includes an author's historical note and brief bibliography. 167 pp. ISBN: 978-0547231846.