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Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus and Giroux
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of the travels of Benjamin, a Jewish man from Tudela, Spain, who, in 1159, set out on a fourteen-year-long journey that took him to Italy, Greece, Palestine, Persia, China, Egypt, and Sicily.
42) Blood red horse
Author
Series
De Granville trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Walker & Co
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A special horse named Hosanna changes the lives of two English brothers and those around them as they fight with King Richard I againstadin's armies during the Third Crusades.
Author
Series
Crispin volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
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
Series
Mad Wolf's daughter volume 1
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1210 Scotland, when invading knights capture 12-year-old Drest's father, the Mad Wolf of the North, and her beloved brothers who make up his fearsome war-band, she sets off to rescue them from the castle prison, taking along a wounded knight as her captive to trade for her family's freedom. -- Provided by publisher.
45) Will in scarlet
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In the late 1100s, thirteen-year-old Will, the future Lord of Shackley, is exiled to Sherwood Forest, where he meets Robin Hood and the Merry Men and bands with them to try and retake Shackley Castle.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
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.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie use the magic treehouse to travel back to the Middle Ages, where they explore a castle and are helped by a mysterious knight.
Author
Series
Mad Wolf's daughter volume 2
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1210 Scotland, twelve-year-old Drest is on the run with a price on her head after rescuing her brothers and father, the Mad Wolf of the North, from captivity.
Author
Publisher
Ulverscroft, Linford Romance
Language
English
Description
England, 1192. When Maggie's brother Michael is kidnapped by outlaws, she appeals to the grim Sir Conrad for help. The first time he sees her, Conrad is overwhelmed by Maggie's beauty and courage. Yet what will it cost him to aid this peasant girl, who seems strangely familiar? Working together to find Michael, Maggie and Conrad discover more about each other - but some knowledge is dangerous. As Christmas approaches, will their love prevail?
Author
Publisher
a Stepping Stone book, Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Retells, in graphic novel form, the tale of eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie, who are whisked back in the magic treehouse to the time of knights and castles"--Provided by publisher.
52) The wizard's dog
Author
Series
The wizard's dog volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When his master and best friend, Merlin, is kidnapped, there is nothing Nosewise the dog will not do to get Merlin back, even if it means facing the strange Fae people and their magic-eating worms, or tangling with the mysterious Sword in the Stone.
Author
Series
Crispin volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Language
English
Description
From the medieval bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep were said to grow on trees, Anthony Bale brings history alive in A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages, inviting the reader to travel across a medieval world punctuated with miraculous wonders and long-lost landmarks. Journeying alongside scholars, spies and saints, from western Europe to the Far East, the Antipodes, and the ends of the world, this is no ordinary travel...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this variation on the folk song "Over the Meadow," the occupants of a medieval castle spend their day spinning, cleaning, cooking, and dancing, until they receive a special surprise from their dragon neighbors.
59) Wild bird
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In fourteenth-century Norway, the plague has destroyed Rype's entire village, and as the sole survivor, she embarks on a sweeping adventure across Europe with the son of an English ship captain and a band of troubadours in search of a brighter future anda new home.
60) Hood
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Isabelle learns that she is the daughter of Robin Hood when her mother, Marien, sends her from their priory to get an urgent message to her father, aided by the Merry Men.
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