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Crispin : at the edge of the world
by Avi
When Bear's past catches up with him in the form of a secret brotherhood who believe him to be an informer, Crispin, after Bear is badly wounded, must decide their future as they, journeying to the edge of the world to find freedom and safety, encounter a vast array of people who impact their lives. Teacher's Guide available.
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Year of wonders : a novel of the plague
by Geraldine Brooks
Young Anna Frith, a vicar's maid, is faced with the loss of her family, the disintegration of her local community, and a passionate, illicit love as she and her village confront the horrors of the plague, in a historical novel based on real-life events in seventeenth-century England. A first novel. Reprint.
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The Canterbury tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
A lively new translation brings the fourteenth-century classic into modern English while maintaining the flavor, charm, and rhythm of the original version as it chronicles the stories of a group of travelers representing every aspect of medieval society on a pilgrimage to Canterbury, England. 50,000 first printing.
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Catherine, called Birdy
by Karen Cushman
During her fourteenth year, in the year 1290, Catherine keeps a diary in which she details her family's activities and conflicts, the life of their medieval English manor, and her own coming to maturity.
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The midwife's apprentice
by Karen Cushman
In a small village in medieval England, a young homeless girl acquires a home and a new career when she becomes the apprentice to a sharp-tempered midwife. By the author of Catherine, Called Birdy.
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The ghost in the Tokaido Inn
by Dorothy Hoobler
Seikei, the fourteen-year-old son of a tea merchant in Japan, wants desperately to become a samurai, and he gets his chance to prove his courage when he becomes involved in the pursuit of a ruby thief.
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Sword of the rightful king : a novel of King Arthur
by Jane Yolen
Merlinnus the magician devises a way for King Arthur to prove himself the rightful king of England--pulling a sword from a stone--but trouble arises when someone else removes the sword first
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Hush : an Irish princess' tale
by Donna Jo Napoli
Fifteen-year-old Melkorka, an Irish princess, is kidnapped by Russian slave traders and not only learns how to survive but to challenge some of the brutality of her captors, who are fascinated by her apparent muteness and the possibility that she is enchanted.
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The squire's tale
by Gerald Morris
When Gawain befriends Terence, an orphan boy, and makes him his squire, Terence finds himself surrounded by kings, knights, and magic spells in King Arthur's court, but his duties soon take him away as he and Gawain set out to learn about Terence's parents.
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Gilt
by Katherine Longshore
In 1539, when Kitty Tylney's best friend, Catherine Howard, worms her way into King Henry VIII's heart and brings Kitty to court, she is thrust into a world filled not only with fabulous gowns, sparkling jewels and elegant parties but also with secrets, lies and sordid affairs, where Kitty witnesses Cat's meteoric rise and fall as queen and learns that the price of telling the truth could literally be her head.
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