Gavin, Jamila.
The blood stone / Jamila Gavin. - 1st American ed. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005, c2003. - 340 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Wilson's Junior High School, August 2006 School Library Journal, December 2005 Pub Weekly, November 2005 Booklist, December 2005 New York Times, January 2006 Horn Book, April 2006 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), February 2006 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2005 Kirkus Review, November 2005 Multicultural Review, June 2006
In the early seventeenth century, young Venetian Filippo Veroneo travels from Venice to Afghanistan to rescue his imprisoned father, Geronimo, and stops in India to raise the ransom by selling his father's beautiful diamond to the ruler Shah Jehan, who later uses the stone as the model for the Taj Mahal.
Young Adult Follett Library Resources
0374308462
2004053257
Veroneo, Geronimo, fl. 1630 to 1653 --Fiction.
Diamonds--Fiction.
Voyages and travels--Fiction.
Father-son relationship--Fiction.
Extrasensory perception--Fiction.
Taj Mahal (Agra, India)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Venice (Italy)--History--Fiction.
India--History--Fiction.
Italy--History--1559-1789--Fiction.
PZ7.G2355 / Bl 2005
[Fic]
The blood stone / Jamila Gavin. - 1st American ed. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005, c2003. - 340 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Wilson's Junior High School, August 2006 School Library Journal, December 2005 Pub Weekly, November 2005 Booklist, December 2005 New York Times, January 2006 Horn Book, April 2006 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), February 2006 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2005 Kirkus Review, November 2005 Multicultural Review, June 2006
In the early seventeenth century, young Venetian Filippo Veroneo travels from Venice to Afghanistan to rescue his imprisoned father, Geronimo, and stops in India to raise the ransom by selling his father's beautiful diamond to the ruler Shah Jehan, who later uses the stone as the model for the Taj Mahal.
Young Adult Follett Library Resources
0374308462
2004053257
Veroneo, Geronimo, fl. 1630 to 1653 --Fiction.
Diamonds--Fiction.
Voyages and travels--Fiction.
Father-son relationship--Fiction.
Extrasensory perception--Fiction.
Taj Mahal (Agra, India)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Venice (Italy)--History--Fiction.
India--History--Fiction.
Italy--History--1559-1789--Fiction.
PZ7.G2355 / Bl 2005
[Fic]