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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The Book Without Words appears to be a volume of blank parchment pages. But for a green-eyed reader filled with great desire, it may reveal the forgotten magical arts of making gold and achieving immortality. For generations, its magic has been protected from those who would exploit it. But on a terrible day of death and destruction, the Book Without Words falls into the hands of a desperate boy.
Author
Publisher
Villard
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Dispatched to find a missing mouse, three members of the Mouse Guard make a shocking discovery - one that involves a treacherous betrayal, a stolen secret, and a rising power with just one goal - to bring down the Guard.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Branded as traitors by the king's authorities, Crispin and his guardian, Bear, flee to coastal towns in fourteenth-century England, where they perform a musical juggling act and bond as a family after befriending a disfigured girl.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The saga of The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End now continues with Follett's... A Column of Fire. In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As power in England shifts precariously between Catholics and Protestants, royalty and commoners clash, testing friendship, loyalty, and love. Ned Willard wants nothing more than to marry Margery Fitzgerald. But when the lovers find themselves...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A retelling in comic strip form of Geoffrey Chaucer's famous work in which a group of pilgrims in fourteenth-century England tell each other stories as they travel on a pilgrimage to the cathedral at Canterbury.
Step back into the Middle Ages for a boisterous, bawdy storytelling session led by the one and only Chaucer. Marcia Williams uses her signature comic-strip format to animate nine Canterbury classics, including "The Clerk's Tale," "The Miller's...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Crispin tries to fulfill Bear's dream of moving to Iceland, he must leave Troth behind at a convent that needs a healer but, after falling in with thieves posing as musicians, he makes a new friend, Owen, and together they continue the arduous journey.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. We shall all, in the end, find our way home. In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl, Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood, and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the goat. As the monk nurses Beatryce to health, he uncovers her dangerous secret, one that imperils...
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