A Polish family in the Middle Ages guards a great secret treasure and a boy's memory of an earlier trumpeter of Krakow makes it possible for him to save his father.
In England in 1340, Juliet resents Marguerite's snooty new friend Lady Enid, but when she learns that Enid's father has been unjustly accused of treason she volunteers for a dangerous mission to help clear his name.
A collection of well-known tales from medieval Europe, including "Beowulf," "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," "The Song of Roland," and the story of Finn MacCoul.
Readers will study the intriguing history and culture of the medieval and early modern periods, including: the Germanic Empires of the fifth century, the founding of Canada and the United States, and the arrival of the Europeans in Oceania and Australia in the eighteenth century.
Traces a year in the Lincolnshire village of Gerneham, from ploughing through sowing, harvesting, and threshing, with illustrations of village life inspired by the fourteenth-century Luttrell Psalter.
