Then another disaster struck the ancient city. Though Michael liked helping Tom sell ballads, he knew-and Susanna often reminded him-that this was not really the way to spend the rest of his life. Two new friends made life possible for him-Tom Godfrey, a carefree young man who sang ballads on street corners for a living, and Susanna, a sturdily independent girl who kept house for an old Dutch map-maker. Homeless and penniless, he brooded now about his unknown origins and worried about his future. Sent hastily from the city when his foster mother succumbed to the dread plague, Michael survived but eight months later when he returned, all his family and friends had perished. The summary by Atheneum reads as follows:īefore the Great Plague swept London in 1665, eleven-year-old foundling Michael Cornhill had led a sheltered, happy life with his foster family and seldom wondered about the parents he had never known. Master Cornhill is a 200 page novel first published in 1973 and written by the acclaimed writer for children and adults Eloise Jarvis McGraw, author of The Newbery Honor novel The Moorchild.
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