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The minstrel in the tower

In the year 1195, eleven-year-old Roger and his eight-year-old sister Alice travel through the French countryside in search of their ailing mother's estranged brother, a wealthy baron.

Main Author: Skurzynski, Gloria.
Other Authors: Heller, Julek.
Format: Books Print Book
Published: New York : Random House Books for Young Readers, 1988.
Series: A Stepping Stone book
Subjects:
Brothers and sisters > Juvenile fiction.
Middle Ages > Juvenile fiction.
France > History > Medieval period, 987-1515 > Juvenile fiction.
Summary: In the year 1195, eleven-year-old Roger and his eight-year-old sister Alice travel through the French countryside in search of their ailing mother's estranged brother, a wealthy baron.
Physical Description: 60 pages
ISBN: 9780394895987
0394895983
Author Notes: Author Gloria Skurzynski was born in Duquesne, Pennsylvania in 1930. She was educated at Carlow University. She writes both fiction and non-fiction books for children and young adults.She is the author of more than sixty books for young readers. In 1992, her work Almost the Real Thing: Simulation in Your High-Tech World won the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award. She writes the National Geographic National Parks series and the Virtual War Chronologs series.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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