Malkin

"Starmaker" Books are about teens struggling to become hopeful, healthy adults. The stories are original, moving, even magical. Their quality and vision delight readers immediately and inspire multiple readings. "Starmaker" Books are safe places where readers can open their heart to both the world and the spirit. They help teens explore themselves, accept themselves, and see their own giftedness. "Starmaker" Books are infused with religious imagination, experiences, history, culture -- and they are in touch with the Catholic Christian worldview.Tattercoats, a beautiful young woman abandoned by her father, wishes to attend a ball at Queen Elizabeth's court, but her grandfather refuses. It is up to her only friends -- the servant girl Malkin and the gooseherd Pug -- to find a way.