Book
The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker
- Published
- 1996
- Genre
- Fiction
- Pages
- 151
- Words
- 31115
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 5.2
- AR interest level
- UG — upper grades, 9–12
- Lexile
- 830L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 10–13
After his family dies of consumption in 1849, twelve-year-old Lucas becomes apprentice to a country doctor. Still haunted by the belief that a strange folk cure might have saved his mother, he confronts fear, desperation, superstition, and the limits of nineteenth-century medicine.
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ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780374400149
- ISBN-10
- 0374400148
Tags
ALSC NotablesBehavior-SuperstitiousCareers-DoctorFamily Life-Death/DyingHistorical FictionHistory-Misc./OtherPeople-Children