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Isabel Perez carries secrets with her every day.As a young woman in 1481, Trujillo, Spain, Isabel should be overjoyed that the alguacil of the city wants to marry her. She is supposed to be flattered especially because she and her family are conversos -- Jews forced to convert to Catholicism -- leaving them low in the hierarchy of the new Spanish order. But, although she can't tell anyone, she only has eyes for Diego Altamirano, a young nobleman whose family would never let him court Isabel.So for now she sneaks out to attend poetry readings, for she longs to one day be a famous poet... another secret wish that may never come true.But Isabel's most dangerous secret is this: Though the Perezes claim to be New Christians, they still practice Judaism in the refuge of their own home.
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Cambria Gordon is the co-author of The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming, winner of the National Green Earth Book Award. She has written for Los Angeles Times Magazine, Boys Life, Parent Guide News and The Jewish Journal of Los Angeles. She lives with her husband and youngest son, while being as near as possible to her two adult children, without annoying them. She splits her time between Madrid and Los Angeles.
