02327cam a2200445 i 4500 1147911071 TxAuBib 210224s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021933420 9781536201222 1536201227 (OCoLC)1239323108 TxAuBib rda Schlitz, Laura Amy, author. Amber & Clay / Laura Amy Schlitz ; with illustrations by Julia Iredale. Amber and Clay. First edition. Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, [2021] ©2021. 532 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 528-532.) ""In a warlike land of wind and sunlight, ""ringed by a restless sea,"" live Rhaskos and Melisto, spiritual twins with little in common beyond the violent and mysterious forces that dictate their lives. A Thracian slave in a Greek household, Rhaskos is as common as clay, a stable boy worth less than a donkey, much less a horse. Wrenched from his mother at a tender age, he nurtures in secret, aided by Socrates, his passions for art and philosophy. Melisto is a spoiled aristocrat, a girl as precious as amber but willful and wild. She'll marry and be tamed--the curse of all highborn girls--but risk her life for a season first to serve Artemis, goddess of the hunt. Bound by destiny, Melisto and Rhaskos--Amber and Clay--never meet in the flesh. By the time they do, one of them is a ghost. But the thin line between life and death is just one boundary their unlikely friendship crosses.""-- Publisher's description. Gods, Greek Juvenile fiction. Gods, Greek Fiction. Goddesses, Greek Juvenile fiction. Goddesses, Greek Fiction. Fate and fatalism Juvenile fiction. Fate and fatalism Fiction. Novels in verse. Young adult fiction. Fantasy fiction. Historical fiction. Iredale, Julia, illustrator.