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The Apprenticeship Of Lucas Whitaker
Cynthia Defelice

The Apprenticeship Of Lucas Whitaker

HarperTrophy (Feb 01, 1998)
9780380729203
| Paperback
160 pages | 130 x 191 mm | English

Subject

  • Apprentices/ Fiction
  • Historical Fiction
  • Orphans - Fiction
  • Orphans/ Fiction
  • Physicians/ Fiction

Plot

After 12-year-old Lucas Whitaker loses his whole family to consumption he learns of a bizarre cure. When he takes a job as apprentice to the town doctor, he learns about the scientific approach to healing, but seeing so many die, he desperately wants to help other families try the cure that might have saved his family.

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