Voices
The Final Hours of Joan of Arc
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Available: 03/26/19
5.92 x 8.39 · 208 pages
Ages 14 years and up
9781328987594
CDN $25.99
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Kirkus Best Book / Publishers Weekly Best Book / The Wall Street Journal Best Book
Bestselling author David Elliott explores how Joan of Arc changed the course of history and remains a figure of fascination centuries after her extraordinary life and death. Joan of Arc gets the Hamilton treatment in this evocative novel.
Told through medieval poetic forms and in the voices of the people and objects in Joan of Arc's life, (including her family and even the trees, clothes, cows, and candles of her childhood), Voices offers an unforgettable perspective on an extraordinary young woman. Along the way it explores timely issues such as gender, misogyny, and the peril of speaking truth to power. Before Joan of Arc became a saint, she was a girl inspired. It is that girl we come to know in Voices .
David Elliottis the award-winning author of more than twenty-five books for young people, including the picture books Finn Throws a Fit ! and the New York Times best-selling And Here's to You! . He is the author of the critically acclaimed verse novels, Bull, which received six starred reviews, and Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc, which was shortlisted for The American Library in Paris Book Award and is the recipient of the Claudia Lewis Award for poetry. A native of Ohio , David now lives (and writes) in New Hampshire with his wife and their Dandie Dinmont terrier, Quiggy. Learn more about David by visiting davidelliottbooks.com ."
