Middle+Ages

= Middle Ages =

|| **__ The Midwife’s Apprentice __** || || **Historical note**: Middle Ages, Peasants were paid a penny a day, Princesses were married young to older men, the Noblemen’s daughter had many peasants of their own. ||
 * ^  || ** Author: Karen Cushman ** ||
 * ^  || **Summary**: A young, homeless girl is found asleep in a dung heap. She is taken in to work, for little food. They call her Beetle, Brat Dung Beetle, but she decides she wants to be called Alyce. Alyce was now a midwife’s apprentice, Jane’s apprentice. As Alyce goes through all kinds of misery she finds a few friends. Follow Alyce through her adventures as __The Midwife’s Apprentice.__ ||
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 * **Reviewed by**: Sarah D.


 * Class**: H1 ||^  ||
 * || **Review**: I enjoyed reading about Alyce’s courage and her strong heart. ||
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|| **Historical note**: The middle ages were also known as the medieval ages. From the Latin words medium (middle) and aevum (age), the period of European history. || Virginia S.
 * [[image:http://syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=0060571195%20:/LC.JPG width="129" height="202"]] || **__ Dragon Hound of Honor __** ||
 * ^  || ** Julie Edwards ** ||
 * ^  || **Summary**: This book is about a dog that helps uncover the mystery of his owner’s death. His owner was found missing one morning. Then in the middle of the night the missing dog showed up to lead two men to his buried, dead, owner. ||
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 * Class**:H1 ||^  ||
 * || **Review**: This book takes place in Medieval France. I like this book because it has a dog in it and I love dogs. But this is also a great book about adventure. ||
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|| **__ Dragons Keep __** || || **Historical note**: medieval means middle age, medieval times were from the 400s to the 1400s. middle ages and medieval times were also known as the dark ages ||
 * ^  || ** Janet Lee Carley ** ||
 * ^  || **Summary**: A princess was born with a dragon claw and would cover up the claw by wearing a glove all the time. After a couple years a dragon invaded her city and took her not as a hostage but as a slave to care for him and his pips (baby dragons). As the pips grew up the father dragon grew old and weary. As the days went by the father dragon grew sicker until he died along with some others. ||
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 * **Reviewed by**:CJ B


 * Class**: H2 ||^  ||
 * || **Review**: I liked this book because it was a great tale of medieval times, but added a little twist to it, it was a great book to read. ||
 * Comments**: this book is the best i hope they make more to this book!! ||
 * Comments**: this book is the best i hope they make more to this book!! ||

w ho come back from the crusades and get in a ship wreck. They find a town and defend it from attack. Eventually they start back home. ||
 * [[image:http://syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=0670899089/LC.JPG width="158" height="249"]] || **__ The Leopard Sword __** ||
 * ^  || ** Michel Cadnum ** ||
 * ^  || **Summary**: This book is mainly about a small group of knights
 * [[image:four_stars.jpg]] **Rating**: || **Historical note**: The crusades were a war between the Muslims and the Christians ||
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 * Class**: ||^  ||
 * || **Review**: I liked the plot and the detail. ||
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 * [[image:http://syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=0618507728%20(reinforc/LC.JPG width="194" height="273"]] || **__ The Lioness and Her Knight __** ||
 * ^  || ** Gerald Morris ** ||
 * ^  || **Summary**: This book is about a girl named Luneta who really wants to be off and have adventures. So Luneta and her cousin Ywain are off to have adventures together, with a friend they found along the way. Luneta also learns something she didn’t know. Something like, Luneta and her mother being enchantress. ||
 * **Rating**:[[image:five_stars.jpg]] || **Historical note**: The Middle Ages in this book show things about King Arthur, his court, and Battle by Combat along with clothing back then. ||
 * Reviewed by: Virginia S.


 * Class**:H1 ||^  ||
 * || **Review**: I liked this book because it is in the Middle Ages, it also has some fantasy and animals in it. ||
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 * [[image:http://syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=0395912113/LC.JPG width="240" height="324"]] || **__ The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady __** ||
 * ^  || ** Gerald Morris ** ||
 * ^  || **Summary**: Squire Terence and Sir Gwain of the Round Tables are off questing and looking for a green knight. Along the way they meet many challenges, and many friends, old and new. They also find family and a title that Terence thought he would never have. ||
 * **Rating**:[[image:five_stars.jpg width="110" height="25"]] || **Historical note**: This book shows a way of knights and how long it might have taken to complete a quest. ||
 * **Reviewed by**: Virginia S.


 * Class**: H1 ||^  ||
 * || **Review**: What I liked about this book was that it has many exciting and funny parts in the book. ||
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|| **Summary**: Catherine, Called Birdy is about a girl’s life in the middle ages. Catherine’s father is making her marry someone. But Catherine refuses to marry them. So she plays tricks on them to get them to change their minds. When one of the richest men wants to marry Catherine she can’t seem to find away out. ||    **Rating**: || **Historical note**: Catherine, called Birdy has a lot of religion in it. They go to church Sundays. Some of there religion is Judaism and some people are monks. || **Reviewed by**: Shannon H. **Class**: H3 ||^   || || **Review**: In my book I liked how she called her dad a beast because of how rude he was and it was also funny. || **Comments**: //(other readers may add comments here.)// ||
 * __ Catherine, Called Birdy   __** ||
 * Karen Cushman ** ||
 * Karen Cushman ** ||