Ernest Linwood

A twelve-year-old girl’s first poem is being mocked before the whole school—and when her teacher reaches the lines about her mother, Gabriella Lynn will not stay silent.

In a nineteenth-century schoolroom, Mr. Regulus expects practical lessons and proper compositions. Gabriella, shy in public but alive with poetry, has disobeyed his assignment by writing what her heart demands; now her cherished verses are in his hands, and his scorn turns a moment of hoped-for triumph into humiliation. But when he threatens to expose the lines she wrote about her mother, Gabriella’s fear gives way to fierce resolve. What can one small, trembling poet do against a roomful of watching eyes and a teacher’s powerful grasp?

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