Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz

Schlitz, Laura. (2007). Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Cambridge: Candlewick Press.

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!, a Newberry Award winning book is written mostly in verse with descriptive, informative paragraphs throughout each of the 21 tales in which the author depicts 23 different characters, in a very Canterbury Tales style.  Schlitz originally wrote the book in a way that students could present a play where everyone had the opportunity to have a key role.

Evaluation criteria: Historical fiction