A review by beththebookdragon
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz

4.0

As best I can tell from my knowledge of medieval society, this is a highly accurate depiction of the lives of various members of a medieval village in Britain. More importantly, the stories are highly entertaining, with appropriate and helpful footnotes at the side of the page and factual spreads about an element mentioned in a particular story (the three-field system, the Crusades, and so on). The illustrations are also simply perfect.

Good Masters, Sweet Ladies would be excellent for a middle-school play, as it was originally written; for research for the same age group or for older or younger students as appropriate, and as pleasure reading or appealing assigned reading. The book fully deserves this year's Newbery Award.