Eleven-year-old Adam Quartermayne searches the English countryside for his minstrel father, and his dog Nick during the thirteenth-century.
For well over thirty years, Eric P. Kelly’s Newbery Award winner has brought the color and romance of ancient times to young readers. Today, The Trumpeter of Krakow is an absorbing and dramatic as when it was first published in 1928.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival and the miracle of goodness only adds to McCarthy's stature as a living master.
We have to keep telling ourselves that this is fiction.
Late out of the gate with starting college and a career, the now determined but insecure Adam's eyes happen upon the most beautiful Mary Bellemore.
Combine that with his sister’s out-of-the-blue return and the attention of a girl he meets in an AA meeting, and all the work Adam has put into being fine begins to unravel.
Based on the blog of the same name, Book of Adam details Adam's hilarious trials and tribulations in his attempt to become a functioning member of society.
A road's a kind of holy thing, said Roger the Minstrel to his son, Adam.
Including tips from some of the NBA's biggest stars, this is a book that will give both players and coaches at all levels proper direction on how to improve shooting technique.
In turbulent sixteenth-century Japan, orphaned Taro is taken in by a general serving the great warlord Takeda Shingen and grows up to become a samurai fighting for the enemies of his dead family. An ALA Notable Book. Reissue.
Text and detailed drawings follow the planning and construction of a "typical" castle and adjoining town in thirteenth-century Wales.