The Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo

Title: The Beatryce Prophecy

Author: Kate DiCamillo 

Genre: Children's Fiction

Brother Edik finds a girl curled up with a devil-goat in a stable stall at Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. She is filthy, sick, and has no memory of how she got there or who she is, just her first name: Beatryce. The monks take her in a learn a dangerous secret about the girl: Beatryce can read and write, an ability that very few people, and only men, are permitted. The monks believe she may be the subject of a prophecy about “a girl child who will unseat a king."

This may be the best children's book of the year. Author Kate DiCamillo already has an impressive resume, but she knocks it out of the park with this timeless fairytale. The Beatryce Prophecy is a short read that might only take you an afternoon but will be worth every second. Give this book all the awards.

- Beth

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