Luc, a youth born with one ear and raised by a drunken father in fifteenth-century France, finds a better home with fisherman Pons, his sister Mattie, and their ward Beatrice, the daughter of a disgraced knight, and even after being kidnapped and sold into slavery in Africa, he remains remarkably fortunate.
year: 2012
call number/section: 1000
subjects: identity (psychology), juvenile fiction, luck, abnormalities, human, fishing, slavery, france, history, 15th century, juvenile fiction, africa, to 1498, fiction, 1328-1589, house of valois