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| Original Title: | The King's Shadow |
| ISBN: | 0440220114 (ISBN13: 9780440220114) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Evyn |
| Setting: | United Kingdom |
| Literary Awards: | IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Older Reader Category (1996), Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children's Literature Nominee (1996) |
Elizabeth Alder
Paperback | Pages: 272 pages Rating: 3.87 | 669 Users | 89 Reviews
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| Title | : | The King's Shadow |
| Author | : | Elizabeth Alder |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 272 pages |
| Published | : | July 7th 1997 by Laurel Leaf (first published 1995) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Young Adult. Fantasy |
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Evyn, a young Welsh serf, has dreamed all his life of becoming a storyteller. But in a cruel twist of fate, Evyn and his father suffer a brutal attack by a group of murderous ruffians. Evyn's tongue is cut off and his father is killed. Orphaned and unable to speak, Evyn assumes he is destined to a life of slavery. But Evyn is resilient and teaches himself to read and write. He is then appointed the personal companion to Earl Harold of Wessex, who later becomes the King of England. The two travel the countryside together, forming a close father-son bond. Evyn chronicles all of their exciting journeys, which culminate at the Battle of Hastings, where the future of the country is decided.Rating Based On Books The King's Shadow
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This is the book for the young adults and adventurers at heart!The book talks about English history and the main character in this story is Evyn; who wish to become a bard or somewhat a storyteller. He was mutilated (his tongue was cut off!) one rainy night when he pissed off some noblemen in a tavern. But he was then saved by his uncle and sold him to slavery. Evyn, tried to find a way to commute with people. My heart felt like it was in pain about Evyn's condition but i felt relief after whenThis was almost worthy of Rosemary Sutcliff, in both story and writing. The Author's style does a wonderful job in capturing the love of the Briton countryside and heritage, as well as weaving historical fact and fiction together superbly. Her battle scene was well written, unlike so many modern stories. She did not focus on the fighting as individual scenes, like a movie does, but as a whole, and yet she does not neglect relating certain events through Evyn's eyes. Her storm-at-sea, too, was
Don't you love it when a book surprises you? I read this one as a part of my goal to read every book in the libraries Jr Fiction section and I was wholly prepared for it to be mediocre. It was not. I finished it days ago and yet my mind is still with the characters in the story, wondering about their future. It is made all the more magical to learn that nearly every character in the book was a real person who lived this story in real life in 11th century England, as Britain went from Saxon to
I read this years ago and loved it. Not sure if I'd enjoy it as much as an adult, but I remember it fondly.
My son is in a home school co-op this year. I am the fifth and sixth grade writing teacher. I was given my curriculum, which came complete with a list of reading for the year. So I read the novels along with the kids, and there were some mixed results. As you should be able to tell from the title of this blog entry, the theme of their writing course of the year was Medieval times, which was cool because they were also studying the Middle Ages in their history class. So there was a lot of overlap
I really loved this book. It is excellent historical fiction. It deals with the period of 1063 to 1066 in England when some extraordinary noble, ethical and kind leaders ruled as well as some extremely ruthless and barbaric rulers existed. It is a very interesting time in history. You can't help but be rooting for Earl Harold and Evyn throughout the book.
Don't you love it when a book surprises you? I read this one as a part of my goal to read every book in my library's Jr fiction section and I was wholly prepared for it to be mediocre. It was not. I finished it days ago and yet my mind is still with the characters in the story, wondering about their future. It is made all the more magical to learn that nearly every character in the book was a real person who lived this story in real life in 11th century England, as Britain went from Saxon to
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