Blountville: Tween Book Club

This month we’ll be reading The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli – This Newberry winning historical fiction book is about Robin, a boy abandoned by servants who fear the plague, who is rescued by Brother Luke, a friar from St. Mark’s monastery. Brother Luke teaches Robin how to read, swim, whittle, and build strength and self-reliance, while teaching him patience: “Thou hast only to follow the wall far enough and there will be a door in it.”…