Clara saw him once in the square and has been unable to forget his kind assistant, a girl a little older than Clara.
One bright spot for Clara is that her father agreed to allow Grisini, a puppeteer, to perform at the party. Splendors and Glooms is a well-written novel of hope.Ĭlara is preparing to celebrate her twelfth birthday, but the day is overshadowed by the continuous mourning in her home five years after the deaths of her four siblings. In the end, however, the children outsmart Grisini and Cassandra, as well as the source of power. Grisini hopes to use the child who steals the power to gain access to it himself. For this reason, Grisini tells her about his wards and convinces her to use one of them to serve her purpose. Cassandra, Grisini’s former mentor, needs someone to steal away her source of magic before she dies a horrible death. In this novel, puppeteer Gaspare Grisini makes his living putting on puppet shows all over Europe with the help of his two wards, Lizzie Rose and Parsefall. Splendors and Glooms is a novel by writer Laura Amy Schlitz.
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