Newbery Honor 2013 Splendors and Glooms Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction 2016 The Hired Girl National Jewish Book Award 2016 The Hired Girl Laura Amy Schlitz is an American author of children's literature.
Voices from a Medieval Village,[1] and the 2013 Newbery Honor for her children's book, Splendors and Glooms.
Her other published books are The Hero Schliemann: The Dreamer Who Dug For Troy (2006), A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama (2006), which won a Cybils Award that year, The Bearskinner: A Tale of the Brothers Grimm (2007), The Night Fairy (2010), Princess Cora and the Crocodile (2017), and Amber and Clay (2021).
The main character, rich girl Clara Wintermute, lives with her parents in a wealthy section of London.
So the puppet master, Grisini, and his assistants, 14-year-old Lizzie Rose Fawr and 12-year-old Parsefall Hooke, visit the Wintermute home and put on their show.