Grade+6+Medieval+Fiction

__The Ballad of Sir Dinadan__ by Gerald Morris R. L. 5.4 Though he would rather pursue his talent as a musician, eighteen-year-old Dinadan is forced to follow his older brother Tristram's path and become a knight. Set at the time of King Arthur.

__Bella at Midnight__ by Diane Stanley R. L. 5.8 Raised by peasants, Bella discovers that she is actually the daughter of a knight and soon finds herself caught up in a terrible plot that will change her life and the kingdom forever.

__Blood Red Horse__ by K.M. Grant R. L. 6.6 A special horse named Hosanna changes the lives of two English brothers and those around them as they fight with King Richard I against Saladin's armies during the Third Crusades.

__Catherine,Called Birdy__ by Karen Cushman R. L. 6.4 The thirteen-year-old 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.

__Crispin: the Cross of Lead__ by Avi R.L. 6.1 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.

__Crossing to Paradise__ by Kevin Crossley-Holland R. L. 3.4 Gatty is given the chance of a lifetime when she is asked to accompany a family on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and the journey, though dangerous, quickly changes Gatty's life forever.

__Dogboy__ by Christopher Russell R. L. 5.6 In 1346, twelve-year-old Brind, an orphaned kennel boy raised with hunting dogs at an English manor, accompanies his master, along with half of the manor's prized mastiffs, to France, where he must fend for himself when both his master and the dogs are lost at the decisive battle of Crécy.

__The Door in the Wall__ by Marguerite DeAngeli R.L. 6.2 A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__The Edge on the Sword__ by Rebecca Tingle R. L. 6.8 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">In ninth-century Britain, fifteen-year-old Aethelflaed, daughter of King Alfred of West Saxony, finds she must assume new responsibilities much sooner than expected when she is betrothed to Ethelred of Mercia in order to strengthen a strategic alliance against the Danes.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__The Executioner’s Daughter__ by Laura E. Williams R. L. 5.2 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Thirteen-year-old Lily, daughter of the town's executioner living in fifteenth-century Europe, decides whether to fight against her destiny or to rise above her fate.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__Fire, Bed, and Bone__ by Henrietta Branford R. L. 5.9 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">In 1381 England, a hunting dog recounts what happens to his beloved master Rufus and his family when they are arrested on suspicion of being part of the peasants' rebellion led by Wat Tyler and the preacher John Ball.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__Forestwife__ by Theresa Tomlinson R. L. 5.3 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">In England during the reign of King Richard I, fifteen-year-old Marian escapes from an arranged marriage to live with a community of forest folk that includes a daring young outlaw named Robert.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__Girl in a Cage__ by Jane Yolen R. L. 6.2 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">As English armies invade Scotland in 1306, eleven-year-old princess Marjorie, daughter of the newly crowned Scottish king, Robert the Bruce, is captured by England's King Edward Longshanks and held in a cage on public display.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village__ by Laura Amy Schlitz <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__The Hunting of the Last Dragon__ by Sherryl Jordan R. L. 6.4 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">In England in 1356, as a monk records his every word, a young peasant tells of his journey with a young Chinese noblewoman to St. Alfric's Cove and the lair of a dragon.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__Joan of Arc of Domrémy__ by Michael Morpurgo R L. 5.5 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">While sitting on the riverbank in the ancient French city of Orléans, seventeen-year-old Eloise hears a voice which relates the adventures and struggles of the medieval heroine, Joan of Arc, as she fights to free France by driving out the English.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__The King’s Swift Rider__ by Molly Hunter R. L. 6.9 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Unwilling to fight but feeling a sense of duty, sixteen-year-old Martin joins Scotland's rebel army as a swift rider and master of espionage for the leader, Robert the Bruce.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__The Lioness & Her Knight__ by Gerald Morris R. L. 5.2 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Headstrong sixteen-year-old Lady Luneta and her distant cousin, Sir Ywain, travel to Camelot and beyond finding more adventure than they hoped for until, with the help of a fool, Luneta discovers what she really wants from life.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__The Midwife’s Apprentice__ by Karen Cushman R. L. 5.2 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">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

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__Mouse Guard: Fall 1152__ by David Petersen RL 3.4 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">A graphic comic about the world of Mouse Guard, mice with capes and swords defending themselves against their enemies as if they were Knights of the Round Table.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__Parzival: Quest of the Grail Knight__ by Katherine Paterson R. L. 5.2 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">A retelling of the Arthurian legend in which Parzival, unaware of his noble birth, comes of age through his quest for the Holy Grail.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__The Puppeteer’s Apprentice__ by Anne D. Love R. L. 4.7 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">A medieval orphan girl called Mouse gains the courage she needs to follow her dreams of becoming a puppeteer's apprentice.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__Rowan Hood, Outlaw Girl of Sherwood Forest__ by Nancy Springer R. L. 5.4 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">In her quest to connect with Robin Hood, the father she has never met, thirteen-year-old Rosemary disguises herself as a boy, befriends a half-wolf, half-dog, a runaway princess, and an overgrown boy whose singing is hypnotic, and makes peace with her elfin heritage.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__The Seeing Stone__ by Kevin Crossley-Holland R. L. 4.1 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">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.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__A Single Shard__ by Linda Sue Park R. L. 6.8 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__Song of the Gargoyle__ by Zipha Keatley Snyder R.L. 7.2 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">When mysterious men in black abduct his father, the court jester of Austerneve, thirteen-year-old Tymmon flees into the forest, where he acquires a strange animal companion and plots to rescue his father.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__The Squire’s Tale__ by Gerald Morris R. L. 5.8 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">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.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__The Sword in the Stone__ by T.H. White R. L. 6.9 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Wart, as Arthur is called, becomes a wiser, more thoughtful person and a worthy king as a result of Merlin's lessons

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__The Trumpeter of Krakow__ by Eric P. Kelly R. L. 5.5 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">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.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__The Winter Hare__ by Joan Goodman R. L. 5.4 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">In 1140, with England divided between the supporters of King Stephen and those of the Empress Matilda, twelve-year-old Will Belet, small for his age but longing to be a knight, comes to his Uncle's castle to be a page and soon finds himself involved in dangerous intrigues and adventures.