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THE WOUNDED BOOK
Love can be found even if you can't see the person who loves you.
Bella, an eleven-year-old, crafty singer of chants with a penchant for smuggling herself into and out of monastery libraries,
abbeys and empires, longs to know her dead Papa in a tangible way. She gets her hands on his book of psalms, only to lose
it to a Greek priest, a Byzantine Patriarch, and a swamp. How Bella rescues _The Wounded Book_ and finds evidence of her Papa's
love is the story of this YA novel set in AD 1000 on both sides of the Mediterranean Sea.
Link to the Bella and the Morning Star blog
Essay
Read the essay: "Half A Library."
Libraries that have been important in my life are the subject of this essay--one that let me experience the atmosphere of
Buchenwald concentration camp and one that let me touch 1000-year-old manuscripts that inspired Bella's story.
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