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| Crispin: The Cross of Lead |
Avi |
YA AVI |
| Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret. |
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| Anna of Byzantium |
Barrett, Tracy |
YA BARRETT |
| In the eleventh century the teenage princess Anna Comnena fights for her birthright, the throne to the Byzantine Empire, which she fears will be taken from her by her younger brother John because he is a boy. |
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| Crusade in Jeans |
Beckman, Thea |
YA BECKMAN |
| A young boy who volunteers to travel through time to the Middle Ages arrives during the Children's Crusade and is caught in its momentum. |
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| Catherine Called Birdy |
Cushman, Karen |
YA CUSHMAN |
| The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off. |
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| The Midwife's Apprentice |
Cushman, Karen |
YA CUSHMAN |
| In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world. |
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| The Arthur Trilogy |
Crossley-Holland, Kevin |
YA CROSSLEY |
| In late twelfth-century England, a thirteen-year-old boy named Arthur recounts how Merlin gives him a magical seeing stone which shows him images of the legendary King Arthur, the events of whose life seem to have many parallels to his own. |
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| Blue Flame |
Grant, K.M. |
YA GRANT |
| In 1242 in the restive Languedoc region of France, Parsifal, having been charged as a child to guard an important religious relic, has lived in hiding for much of his life until he befriends a young couple on opposite sides of the escalating conflict between the Catholics and the Cathars. |
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| The Hunting of the Last Dragon |
Jordan, Sherryl |
J JORDAN |
| In England in 1356, as a monk records his every word, a young peasant tells of his journey with a young Chinese noblewoman to St. Alfric's Cove and the lair of a dragon. |
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| Bloodline |
Moran, Katy |
YA MORAN |
| While traveling through early seventh-century Britain trying to stop an impending war, Essa, who bears the blood of native British tribes and of the invading Anglish, makes discoveries that divide his loyalties. |
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| Hush: An Irish Princesse's Tale |
Napoli, Donna Jo |
YA NAPOLI |
| Fifteen-year-old Melkorka, an Irish princess, is kidnapped by Russian slave traders and not only learns how to survive but to challenge some of the brutality of her captors, who are fascinated by her apparent muteness and the possibility that she is enchanted. |
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| Lionclaw: A Tale of Rowan Hood |
Springer, Nancy |
J SPRINGER |
| Young Lionel, minstrel in the outlaw band of Rowan Hood, daughter of Robin, tries to find his courage when she is abducted from Sherwood Forest. |
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| The Executioner's Daughter |
Williams, Laura E. |
YA WILLIAMS |
| Thirteen-year-old Lily, daughter of the town's executioner living in fifteenth-century Europe, decides whether to fight against her destiny or to rise above her fate. |
