Winner of the 2017 Michael L. Printz Honor Book Award

In mid-thirteenth century Provence, Dolssa de Stigata is a fervently religious girl who feels the call to preach, condemned by the Inquisition as an "unnatural woman," and hunted by the Dominican Friar Lucien who fears a resurgence of the Albigensian heresy; Botille is a matchmaker trying to protect her sisters from being branded as gypsies or witches--but when she finds the hunted Dolssa dying on a hillside, she feels compelled to protect her, a decision that may cost her everything

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Decoding demand: 97 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 88 (very high) Structure demand: 89 (very high)