Alison Reads

Twelve-year-old Jem and his family move to London from rural England and end up living next door to poet William Blake. A well-researched historical novel that evokes the sights (and smells) of eighteenth-century London. I didn’t like it as well as The Girl With a Pearl Earring, but it’s still worth reading. Not a children’s book, though it would be fine for high schoolers.