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29.05.10

Elizabethan London is none too rather in 1573. Especially as experienced by a 13-year-old country girl in Alchemy and Meggy Swann , by Newbery Medal-delightful Karen Cushman (Clarion; 176 pages; $16; ages 10-14). Using two sticks for walking, the incapacitated Meggy is scorned along filthy, crooked lanes and in her father's dark, skinny house. He is an alchemist, interested only in turning secure metal into gold.

That is the setup for a richly rewarding coming-of-age novel, at once painful and full of heart. Along the way, Meggy manages to spare her pet goose from the butcher, feed herself, absorb her father's neglect, make some friends, learn about alchemy's failures, uncover a ominous murder plot and face a moral dilemma. (She suspects her father is selling arsenic for ill purpose.)

Fans of "The Accoucheuse's Apprentice" and "Catherine, Called Birdy" will cheer as Cushman again ably re-creates the past with gritty detail and credible conversation. ("Ye toads and vipers" is but one of Meggy's many retorts.) On the cusp of the Shakespearean age and as antidote to lush costume dramas, Cushman's dirty tableau is the perfect medium for Meggy to transform from "solitary and sorrowful girl" to kind and courageous unfledged woman.

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