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Cloud of Outrageous Blue, A
Vesper Stamper
Illustrator: Vesper Stamper
Ages: 14+
Published: 2020
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf/Random House Children's Books
ISBN: 978-1-5247-0041-6
Keywords: Black Death, Synesthesia, Plague (European), Medieval Europe, Religious Orders, Miracles, Romance
It's 1348 in Yorkshire; 16-year-old Edyth, a synesthete, illuminates manuscripts in a priory, where terrified townspeople flee from the Plague. Full-color illustrations.