The summer before Ivy's senior year is going to be golden--all bonfires, barbeques, and spending time with her best friends. For once, she will just get to be. No summer classes, none of Granddad's intense expectations to live up to the family name. For generations, the Milbourn women have lead extr
The Wild Swans
โ Scribed by Peg Kerr
- Publisher
- Aspect/Warner Books
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 244 KB
- Edition
- Warner Books ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0446608475
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
SUMMARY:
This novel focuses on two outcasts on two journeys in two eras. In 1689 England, Lady Eliza Grey's 11 brothers are turned into swans. Rejected by her father, Eliza is flown to America by her brothers where she has a chance to save them--until she is accused of witchcraft. In the second story, set in 1981 New York, Elias Latham has AIDS, is banished from his father's house, and must learn to live on the streets. Like Eliza, Elias struggles to understand the suffering he must endure.
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