Secrets in the house of Delgado

By Gloria D. Miklowitz

Subjects: Identity, fiction, Identity, Prejudices, Inquisition, spain, Jews, history, fiction, Orphans, fiction, Spain, history, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Orphans, Juvenile fiction, Inquisition, History, Jews, Prejudices, fiction, Marranos

Description: In Spain in 1492, fourteen-year-old Maria, a Catholic orphan, becomes a servant to a wealthy family of Conversos, converted Jews, at a time when the Jews are being expelled from the country and when the Inquisition is diligently searching for religious heretics.