Working as an artist's apprentice in Renaissance Florence, thirteen-year-old Arduino makes a discovery which may cost him the chance to become a painter.

• Fiction
• Mildred L. Batchelder Award 1994 (Medal Winner)
• Format: Book
• ISBN: 9780374303891

Notes

Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Originally published in Spanish in 1993 as "El Aprendiz."