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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 26
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Geoffrey Chaucer's fourteenth-century masterpiece The Canterbury Tales is such a rollicking good read that you'll forget many critics and scholars also regard it as one of the most important literary works in English. A group of pilgrims are traveling together to visit a holy shrine at the Canterbury Cathedral. Along the way, they decide to hold a storytelling contest to pass the time, with the winner to be awarded a lavish feast on the
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The knights' tales volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
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After receiving an ominous prophecy at his christening, Sir Balin lives his life alternately trying to fulfill it and trying to avoid it.
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Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
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As a page in his uncle's castle in thirteenth-century England, eleven-year-old Tobias records in his journal his experiences learning how to hunt, play games of skill, and behave in noble society. Includes notes on noblemen, castles, and feudalism.
5) Mystique
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A tantalizing tale of a legendary knight and a headstrong lady whose daring quest for a mysterious crystal will draw them into a whirlwind of treachery–and desire.
When the fearsome knight called Hugh the Relentless swept into Lingwood Manor like a storm, everyone cowered–except Lady Alice. Sharp-tongued and unrepentant, the flame haired beauty believed Sir Hugh was not someone to dread but the answer to her dreams. She knew he had...
When the fearsome knight called Hugh the Relentless swept into Lingwood Manor like a storm, everyone cowered–except Lady Alice. Sharp-tongued and unrepentant, the flame haired beauty believed Sir Hugh was not someone to dread but the answer to her dreams. She knew he had...
10) The Middle Ages
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Lerner Publications Co
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Considers the most important aspects of European history between 1000 and 1450 including the power of the guilds, the Church, the feudal lords, and the Crusades.
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Georgia, SuSu, Teeny, Diane, and Linda are back in a warm, sassy Southern novel from the New York Times bestselling author of QUEEN BEE OF MIMOSA BRANCH and RED HAT CLUB.
Georgia, SuSu, Teeny, Linda and Diane have been friends for more than thirty years. But, when Pru Bonner, black sheep of the group, falls off the wagon so hard it shakes their world, "the girls" stage a hilarious kidnapping in Vegas to help their childhood friend clean up her act....
14) Matilda Bone
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Fourteen-year-old Matilda, an apprentice bonesetter and practitioner of medicine in a village in medieval England, tries to reconcile the various aspects of her life, both spiritual and practical.
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Crispin volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
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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.
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Crispin volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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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.
19) Medieval society
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Crabtree
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Describes daily life in Europe during the Middle Ages, looking at the social hierarchy of the feudal system, through which kings and lords became rich while peasants remained poor.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 4
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When Robin, the son of a nobleman, falls and loses the use of his legs, he is abandoned and left alone. A monk named Brother Luke rescues Robin and takes him to the hospice of St. Mark's were he is taught woodcarving and--much harder--patience and strength. Winner of the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award.
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