The tears of the salamander

By Peter Dickinson

Subjects: Salamanders, Uncles, Singing, Fire, Magic, Fiction, Orphans, History

Description: When Alfredo, a twelve-year-old choir boy in eighteenth-century Italy, loses his family in a fire, he goes to live with Uncle Giorgio, who he discovers is a sorcerer in control of the fires of Mt. Etna with sinister plans for his nephew.