Middle Ages

F. H. Tuttle Middle School Library

Middle Ages Fiction

FIC ALD
Alder, Elizabeth. The King's Shadow. 1st ed. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1995. After he is orphaned and has his tongue cut out in a clash with the bullying sons of a Welsh noble, Evyn is sold as a slave and serves many masters, from the gracious Lady Swan Neck to the valiant Harold Godwinson, England's last Saxon king.

FIC AVI
Avi, 1937- Crispin : The Cross of Lead. New York : Hyperion, 2002. 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.

FIC AVI
Avi, 1937- Midnight Magic. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 1999. In Italy in 1491, Mangus the magician and his apprentice are summoned to the castle of Duke Claudio to determine if his daughter is indeed being haunted by a ghost.

FIC BAR
Barrett, Tracy, 1955- Anna of Byzantium. New York : Delacorte Press, 1999. In the eleventh century the teenage princess Anna Comnena fights for her birthright, the throne to the Byzantine Empire, which she fears will be taken from her by her younger brother John because he is a boy.

FIC BOS
Boston, L. M. (Lucy Maria), 1892- The Stones of Green Knowe. 1st American ed. New York : Atheneum, 1976. While eagerly following each stage of the new stone manor house his father is building to replace their old wooden Saxon hall, a young boy, part Saxon and part Norman, becomes involved with ancient magic that carries him through time.

FIC CAD
Cadnum, Michael. The Book of the Lion. New York : Viking, 2000. In twelfth-century England, after his master, a maker of coins for the king, is brutally punished for alleged cheating, seventeen-year-old Edmund finds himself traveling to the Holy Land as squire to a knight crusader on his way to join the forces of Richard Lionheart.

FIC CAD
Cadnum, Michael. The Leopard Sword. New York : Viking, c2002. Hubert, a young knight's squire sailing back to England from the Crusades, must take up arms again when infidels attack the ship, and he discovers his fight is not over when he finally reaches home only to find a friend facing execution.

FIC CHE
Chester, Deborah. The Sign of the Owl. New York : Four Winds Press, c1981. The 15-year-old son of the Duke of Gaumont seeks to regain the duchy which, after a bloody battle, is now under the control of his ruthless uncle, Lord Claude.

FIC CRO
Crossley-Holland, Kevin. The Seeing Stone. 1st American ed. New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2001. In late twelfth-century England, a thirteen-year-old boy named Arthur recounts how Merlin gives him a magical seeing stone which shows him images of the legendary King Arthur, the events of whose life seem to have many parallels to his own.

FIC CUS
Cushman, Karen. Catherine, Called Birdy. New York : Clarion Books, c1994. The daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off.

FIC CUS
Cushman, Karen. The Midwife's Apprentice. New York : Clarion Books, c1995. In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.

FIC CUS
Cushman, Karen. Matilda Bone. New York : Clarion, c2000. 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.

FIC DEA
De Angeli, Marguerite, 1889- The Door in the Wall. New York : Doubleday, 1989, c1949. A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King.

FIC DIC
Dickinson, Peter, 1927- The Weathermonger. New York : Delacorte Press, c1986. People of the future recreate the Middle Ages by destroying Machines and by subjecting anyone found with a machine or a knowledge of mechanics to severe punishment or death.

FIC FOX
Fox, Paula. The King's Falcon. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., : Bradbury Press, [1969]. With the help of a falcon an ineffectual medieval king trades the troubled, boring life of royalty for the freedom of a falconer.

FIC GRA
Gray, Elizabeth Janet. Adam of the Road. Viking, 1949. Adam Quartermayne, a minstrel's son, travels all over England from June, 1294 to April, 1295, first accompanying his father, Roger, then in search of his dog Nick, then in search of his father.

FIC GRE
Greer, Gery. Max and Me and the Time Machine. 1st ed. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1983. Steve buys a time machine at a garage sale and takes his friend Max to the year 1250, where they land in the middle of a jousting match, with the fierce Sir Bevis as an enemy.

FIC GRO
Gross, Gwen. Knights of the Round Table. New York : Random House, c1985. Retells the exploits of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table.

FIC JON
Jones, Dianna Wynne. Castle in the Air. New York : Greenwillow Books, 1991. Having long indulged himself in daydreams more exciting than his mundane life as a carpet merchant, Abdullah unexpectedly purchases a magic carpet and his life changes dramatically as his daydreams come true and dangerous adventures become daily fare.

FIC JON
Jones, Terry, 1942 - The Knight and the Squire. London : Pavilion, 1997. Tom, a bright young boy in fourteenth-century England, runs away in search of adventure and finds just what he is looking for, especially after he teams up with the engaging squire, Alan.

FIC JON
Jones, Terry, 1942 - The Lady and the Squire. London : Pavilion, 2000. Tom and Ann are caught up in the chaos and bloodshed of the wars between England and France in the fourteenth century.

FIC KEL
Kelly, Eric Philbrook, 1884-1960. The Trumpeter of Krakow. [New ed.]. New York, : Macmillan, [1966]. 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.

FIC KEM
Kemp, Gene. Jason Bodger and the Priory Ghost. London ; Boston : Faber and Faber, 1985. When Jason visits an ancient priory with his class, he meets a girl who lived eight centuries before.

FIC KIN
Kindl, Patrice. Goose Chase. Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin, 2001. Rather than marry a cruel king or a seemingly dim-witted prince, an enchanted goose girl endures imprisonment, capture by several ogresses, and other dangers, before learning exactly who she is.

FIC KON
Konigsburg, E. L. A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum, 1973. While waiting in heaven for divine judgement to be passed on her second husband, Eleanor of Aquitaine and three of the people who knew her well recall the events of her life.

FIC LAS
Lasker, Joe. A Tournament of Knights. 1st ed. New York : Crowell, c1986. Justin, a young knight in the Middle Ages, prepares to engage in his first tournament, while an experienced challenger plans to defeat him.

FIC LOF
Lofts, Norah, 1904- The Maude Reed Tale. [1st U.S. ed.]. Nashville, : T. Nelson, [1972]. A girl living in England in the Middle Ages wants to become a wool merchant but is sent, instead, to a castle in Sussex to learn to be a lady.

FIC MCG
McGraw, Eloise Jarvis. The Striped Ships. 1st ed. New York : Toronto ; New York : M. K. McElderry Books ; Maxwell Macmillan, 1991. Juliana, an eleven-year-old Saxon girl, loses her home and family when the Normans conquer England in 1066 and seeks to order her life by becoming involved in the creation of the Bayeux tapestry.

MIC MOR
Morris, Gerald, 1963- The Squire's Tale. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998. In medieval England, fourteen-year-old Terence finds his tranquil existence suddenly changed when he becomes the squire of the young Gawain of Orkney and accompanies him on a long quest, proving Gawain's worth as a knight and revealing an important secret about his own true identity.

MIC MOR
Morris, Gerald, 1963- The Squire, His Knight, & His Lady. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999. After several years at King Arthur's court, Terence, as Sir Gawain's squire and friend, accompanies him on a perilous quest that tests all their skills and whose successful completion could mean certain death for Gawain.

FIC MOR
Morris, Gerald, 1963- The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000. Lynet, a feisty young woman, journeys to King Arthur's court in order to find a champion to rescue her beautiful older sister, and she is joined in her quest by a clever dwarf and a bold kitchen knave, neither of whom are not what they seem.

FIC MOR
Morris, Gerald, 1963 - Parsifal's Page. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2001. In medieval England, eleven-year-old Piers' dream comes true when he becomes page to Parsifal, a peasant whose quest for knighthood reveals important secrets about both of their families.

FIC MYE
Myers, Walter Dean, 1937- The Legend of Tarik. 1st ed. New York : Viking Press, 1981. After witnessing the annihilation of his people by El Muerte's legions, young Tarik undergoes the training which will enable him to destroy this fierce leader.

FIC NOR
Norton, Andre. The Monster's Legacy. New York : Atheneum, 1996. Apprentice embroideress Sarita escapes into the mountains with the Earl's son when his castle is attacked by enemies. There she meets Rhys, a guardsman who has also survived the massacre and together they harness the power of the legendary Loden to fight their evil attackers.

FIC OSB
Osborne, Mary Pope. The Knight at Dawn. New York : Random House, c1993. Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie use the magic tree house to travel back to the Middle Ages, where they explore a castle and are helped by a mysterious knight.

FIC PAT
Paton Walsh, Jill, 1937- A Parcel of Patterns. 1st American ed. New York : Farrar Straus Girous, 1983. Mall Percival tells how the plague came to her Derbyshire village of Eyam in the year 1665 and how the villagers determined to isolate themselves to prevent further spread of the disease.

FIC PIE
Pierce, Tamora. Alanna: The First Adventure. New York : Random House, c1983. Eleven-year-old Alanna, who aspires to be a knight even though she is a girl, disguises herself as a boy to become a royal page, and proves to be capable of high adventure.

FIC PIE
Pierce, Tamora. In the Hand of the Goddess. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum, 1984. Pursuing her desire to be a knight, Alanna learns many things in her role as squire to Prince Jonathan, but fears Duke Roger, an ambitious sorcerer with whom she knows she will one day have to deal.

FIC PIE
Pierce, Tamora. First Test. New York : Random House, c1999. Ten-year-old Keladry of Mindalen, daughter of nobles, serves as a page but must prove herself to the males around her if she is ever to fulfill her dream of becoming a knight.

FIC PIE
Pierce, Tamora. Page. New York : Random House, c2000. Keladry of Mindelan continues her training to become a squire with the aid of a new maid, the support of her friends, interference from some other pages, and some serious, even dangerous opposition.

FIC PIE
Pierce, Tamora. The Woman Who Rides Like a Man. New York : Random House, c1986. A knight at last, Alanna of Trebond heads out to seek adventure in the desert of Tortall.

FIC SCI
Scieszka, Jon. Knights of the Kitchen Table. New York : Viking, 1991. One minute they're looking at pictures of knights in the book, a birthday gift from Joe's magician uncle, the next minute they're battling fire-breathing dragons. Will Joe, Fred, and Sam escape death?

FIC SKU
Skurzynski, Gloria. Manwolf. New York : Houghton Mifflin/Clarion Books, c1981. Only when he finally reaches adolescence does a boy, living in medieval Poland, realize people think he is a werewolf.

FIC SKU
Skurzynski, Gloria. The Minstrel in the Tower. New York : Random House, c1988. In the year 1195, eleven-year-old Roger and his eight-year-old sister Alice travel through the French countryside in search of their ailing mother's estranged brother, a wealthy baron.

FIC SKU
Skurzynski, Gloria. What Happened in Hamelin. New York : Four Winds Press, c1979. A novel of the Pied Piper legend told from the standpoint of a 14-year-old baker's assistant who dreams of freedom from his harsh medieval life and of a new life with the piper.

FIC STO
Stolz, Mary, 1920 - Bartholomew Fair. New York : Greenwillow Books, c1990. On a August day in 1598 six people, including Queen Elizabeth, a wealthy cloth merchant, a scullery maid, two schoolboys, and an overworked apprentice, attend London's Bartholomew's Fair ad come away with unforgettable experiences.

FIC STR
Strauss, Victoria. The Lady of Rhuddesmere. New York : F. Warne, c1982. Geraint is sent from his father's castle to live in a household in which the practices of an ancient heresy have survived into the fifteenth century.

FIC SUT
Sutcliff, Rosemary. Bonnie Dundee. New York : Dutton, 1984, c1983. In exile in Holland, Hugh Herriot recalls the exploits of his youth as a follower of Bonnie Dundee who tried to win back Scotland for the Catholic King James and whose death during a victorious battle proved to be a final blow for the Jacobite cause.

FIC SUT
Sutcliff, Rosemary. The Shining Company. New York : Farrar, c1990. In 600 A.D. in northern Britain, Prosper becomes a shield bearer with the Companions, an army made up of three hundred younger sons of minor kings and trained to act as one fighting brotherhood against the invading Saxons.

FIC SUT
Sutcliff, Rosemary. The Witch's Brat. New York, : H. Z. Walck, [1970]. The knowledge of herbs and healing that once prompted the villagers to stone him out of town eventually becomes the salvation for a crippled boy in twelfth-century England.

FIC SUT
Sutcliff, Rosemary. Knight's Fee. Walck, [c1960]. Randal, a half-Saxon half-Breton lad in Norman England, is left an orphan and must fend for himself as a dog-boy in Arundel castle. He rises to knighthood and freedom, but at a terrible price.

FIC TEM
Temple, Frances. The Beduins' Gazelle. New York : Orchard Books, c1996. In 1302, two cousins of the nomadic Beni Khalid tribe who are betrothed become separated by political intrigue between warring tribes.

FIC TEM
Temple, Frances. The Ramsay Scallop. New York : Orchard Books, c1994. Thirteenth century couple, Elenor and Tom, overcome their reluctance to marry after they are sent on a pre-nuptial journey to Spain and learn more about the world and each other.

FIC WES
Westall, Robert. The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral. 1st American ed. New York : Farrar, 1993. Soon after steeplejack Joe Clarke begins to work on one of the spires of Muncaster's medieval cathedral, terrible things start to happen and Joe realizes that there is a malevolent force connected to the spire's gargoyle.

FIC WHI
White, T. H. (Terence Hanbury), 1906-1964. The Sword and the Stone. New York : Dell, 1983, c1939. Wart, as Arthur is called, becomes a wiser, more thoughtful person and a worthy king as a result of Merlin's lessons.

FIC WIN
Winthrop, Elizabeth. The Battle for the Castle. 1st ed. New York : Holiday House, c1993. Twelve-year-old William uses the magic token to return, through the toy castle in his attic, to the medieval land of Sir Simon, which is now menaced by a skeleton ship bearing a plague of ravenous rats.

FIC WIN
Winthrop, Elizabeth. The Castle in the Attic. 1st ed. New York : Holiday House, c1985. A gift of a toy castle, complete with silver knight, introduces William to an adventure involving magic and a personal quest.

FIC WIS
Wise, William, 1923- Nell of Branford Hall. 1st ed. New York : Dial Books, c1999. Nell Bullen recounts the horror of the Great London Plague of 1665 and how the "Circle of Death" was drawn around her village to keep the disease from spreading to neighboring towns.

FIC WOO
Woolsey, Maryhale. The Keys and the Candle. Abindgdon Press, 1963. To Rowan, lame since early childhood and the bonded servant of the lovely young Lady Maia, the world was bounded by the hills and the tall trees that surrounded Griffthysmere, an eleventh-century English manor. He had seen nothing else. And then, quite by accident, Griffthysmere had visitors who were to change the whole course of Rowan's life.

FIC YOL
Yolen, Jane. Passager. 1st ed. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1996. A foundling rediscovers his identity through the help of the falconer who adopts him.

FIC YOL
Yolen, Jane. Merlin. 1st ed. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, 1997. Merlin, now twelve years old, begins to come into his magic while being held captive by a band of wild folk.

FIC YOL
Yolen, Jane. Hobby. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1996. Young Merlin is orphaned by a fire and joins a traveling pair of magicians who help him begin to discover his true powers.

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03/21/2003