Keturah and Lord Death

Keturah is dying when she is approached by a young, handsome lord, melancholy and stern. He is Lord Death. Keturah is able to charm him with a story and thereby gain a reprieve'but only for twenty-four hours HONORS Top 10 Women's History Books for Youth?Booklist Best of the Best Books List produced by the Chicago Public Library National Book Award Finalist, Young People's Literature CCBC Choices Books for the Teen Age ?NYPL Pennsylvania School Librarians Association YA Top Forty List, Fiction ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award Winner, Bronze, Young Adult Fiction Bulletin Blue Ribbon, Fiction ?Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards, Master List, Young Adult Junior Library Guild selection