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I'm looking for some recommendations for books on medieval life - also the crusades. I found a brilliant one in the library,
www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Travellers-Gu..._1?ie=UTF8&qid=1286964137&sr=1-1
but is a little bit too "textbooky" (new word )for DS10.

Door in The Wall is a fun fiction read.

Or

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz This one won the Newberry in 2008

DD8 enjoyed both of these. Have fun!

The lads have enjoyed some good historical fiction about that period, especially Eloise Jervis McGraw's "The Striped Ships," Janet Gray's "Adam of the Road," Cynthia Harnett's "The Wool Pack," and Alison Uttley's "The Traveller in Time." Cynthia Harnett is fabulous; we're going to try to track down her other books about the Middle Ages, too.

Somewhere around here I have a list of historical fiction bookmarked; if I find it, I'll pop back over here!

peace
minnie

http://www.historicalnovelsociety.org/solander%20files/chf.htm

Here's an interesting article (can't find the list I was thinking of, but did turn up this bookmark instead).

The kids also had a lot of fun with Mark Oakley and John Mantha, "The Seventh Expert: An Interactive Medieval Adventure." (I chatted about it on page 6 of the Ultimate Book Thread!)

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This is really good. HS level, though.

http://www.amazon.com/Distant-Mirror-Calamitous-14th-Century/dp/0345349571

The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis is medieval historical fiction AND science fiction - what could be better!?

I know it does not really fit, but I loved A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, back when I was in ES.

The Doomsday Book is pretty dark for kids... I started it and did not finish. D1 (age 20) read it and said it was quite depressing -- lots of deaths from plague and influenza.

I would not recommend it for young children. A time traveller is accidentally sent into the middle of the black death, makes friends (including children), then everyone around her dies horribly.

Pillars of the Earth would be better. It's really full of details, with only a bit of sex and disease that I think a ten year old could handle.

Uh, if I recall correctly, Pillars of the Earth includes a horrific rape. Not kid stuff.

DeeDee