Lionheart's Scribe

✍ Scribed by Bradford, Karleen

• Book ID: 107701915
• Publisher: HarperCollins Canada
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 524 KB
• Series: Crusades 3
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781443401449

✦ Synopsis

" Bradford makes history come alive." Canadian Children' s Literature knew that Karleen Bradford had a winner in There Will Be Wolves , the first, award-winning instalment in her Crusades trilogy. The bestselling book, which has sold more than 40,000 copies, was followed by another critically acclaimed bestseller, Shadows on a Sword. Both of these titles set the stage for the eagerly anticipated release of Lionheart' s Scribe , the third -- and the buzz is that it' s the best -- title in the medieval series.

Lionheart' s Scribe is the story of Matthew, a 15-year-old scribe, orphaned and destined for a hardscrabble life of twelfth-century servitude, whose quick wits thrust him into the position of scribe to King Richard the Lionheart of England. It' s the time of the Crusades, as France and England prepare to help King Guy of Jerusalem in winning back the Holy Land from the Muslim Salah-ud-Din. Matthew finds himself...