A 2008 American Library Association (ALA) Best Book for Young Adults and a Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection, I Am Rembrandt’s Daughter is a powerful account of a young woman’s coming of age and the larger-than-life father who threatens to eclipse her dreams.

With her mother dead of the plague, and her brother moved away, Cornelia van Rijn finds herself without a friend or confidante–save her difficult father. Out of favor with Amsterdam’s elite, Rembrandt van Rijn is now teetering on the brink of madness, and Cornelia alone must care for him. But she herself is haunted by secrets and scandal, and her only happiness comes in stolen meetings with Carel, the son of a wealthy shipping magnate. And then there is Neel, her father’s last remaining pupil, whose steadfast devotion to Rembrandt both baffles and touches her.