Crispin. The cross of lead

Format:

Audio disc

Title:

Crispin. The cross of lead

Other title(s):

Cross of lead

Author:

Avi, 1937-

ISBN:

9781402545535

9781402545542

Publication Information:

Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, ℗2002.

Physical Description:

6 audio discs (6.25 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.

Series title(s):

Crispin series ;

Number in series:

BK. 1.

General Note:

Unabridged.

Summary:

In a small, 14th-century English village, a boy, known only as "Asta's son," learns his baptized name is Crispin and is given a lead cross inscribed with a secret that soon has him fleeing for his life

Reading Level:

Middle School.

Subject(s):

Newbery Medal -- 2003.

Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Juvenile fiction.

Orphans -- Juvenile fiction.

Middle Ages -- Juvenile fiction.

Identity -- Fiction.

Orphans -- Fiction.

Middle Ages -- Fiction.

Great Britain -- History -- Edward III, 1327-1377 -- Juvenile fiction.

Great Britain -- History -- Edward III, 1327-1377 -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Great Britain -- History -- Edward III, 1327-1377 -- Juvenile fiction.

Great Britain -- History -- Edward III, 1327-1377 -- Fiction.

Great Britain

Genre:

Audiobooks.

Newbery Medal winner -- 2003

Children's audiobooks

Children's audiobooks.

Added Author:

Keith, Ron.

Holds:

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Library	Call Number	Status
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Reviews (1)

Horn Book Review

Keith's pungent British accent, resonant voice, and formal pacing invest this newly named Newbery winner with a necessary measure of depth and drama as young Crispin wanders through the fourteenth-century English countryside in pursuit of adventure and self-discovery. An amalgam of colorful characters, gory details, and cliffhanger chapter endings, the book lends itself to audio with ease. Keith seems to relish such graphic descriptions as that of the hanging corpse--moldy green face, contorted blue tongue, and bare feet curled like chicken claws--that Crispin encounters and takes to be an omen of his own impending death. Keith manages to ground this tale firmly in both period and place by capitalizing on the earthy details and carefully crafted background against which Avi has set his characters in motion. Book reviewed 9/02. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.