I love reading about nuns and convents - it must be something to do with the fact that I'm Catholic (lapsed) and attended a mission school from the age of six to 17.
Here is a list of books set in convents (schools as well as nunneries) that I've read and enjoyed:
Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen
In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden
Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy by Rumer Godden
Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden
The Land of Spices by Kate O'Brien
Frost in May by Antonia Frost
Quiet as a Nun (Jemima Shore Mysteries) by Antonia Fraser
New Habits by Isabel Losada (Non-fiction)
There's Something About a Convent Girl by Jackie Bennett And Rosemary Forgan (Non-fiction)
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January 2008
COME ON, RAIN!
By Karen Hesse
Illustrated by Jon Muth
Publisher: Scholastic Press, ,40 pages
(ISBN:978-0590331258)
You can imagine this story being performed at a spoken-word gig. Karen
Hesse's words dance like sunspots on your skin, trickle like cold water
down the back on your neck, ripple across your consciousness - rumbling
like thunder, sizzling like an egg frying in a pan full of butter. When
the rain comes, you feel like you could stick out your tongue and catch
a few raindrops. Jon Muth's watercolours shimmer with heat and then
dissolve in silvery wet streaks as the heavens open and the rain
finally comes ...
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