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

4.0

Superb work. I can see why she won a Newbury medal. The author, as a middle school librarian, wanted to give her students who were studying the Middle Ages some material to help them along. She wrote soliloquies that they performed which give glimpses into the lives of teens in that time period. I really like the ones whose lives overlap; you get a more informed perspective hearing different sides of the same story. Definitely targeted towards an adolescent age range; not for young children. The illustrations are great.