The quest for the Holy Grail is postponed again when Ailis is kidnapped by Morgain the sorceress, and her friends, Newt and Gerard, must leave the court of King Arthur seeking to rescue her, accompanied by a grumbling knight.

The people of fourteenth-century Florence, Italy, starving after years of bad weather and natural disasters, now face the Black Plague but twelve-year-old Maria is determined to survive. Includes historical note, glossary, and discussion question.

Several of the popular stories are retold with handsome illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman. Beautiful edition of selected stories including: The Pardoner's Tale and The Wife of Bath's Tale. In 1386, Chaucer recorded, or created, the stories spun by 30 pilgrims traveling from London to Canterbury. Cohen and Hyman have responded to Chaucer's masterpiece with lively prose and unforgettable pictures that evoke the colorful world of 14th-century England....

Elaborates on the tale of "The Pied Piper, " told from the point of view of a boy who is too ill to keep up when a piper spirits away the healthy children of a plague-ridden town after being cheated out of full payment for ridding Hameln of rats.

In Transylvania during the Middle Ages, Fell, a lone wolf with unusual abilities, learns that his destiny is entwined with that of one human, fifteen-year-old Alina, whose mysterious origins have villagers believing she is a changeling.

A retelling of Geoffrey Chaucer's famous work in which a group of pilgrims in fourteenth-century England tell each other stories as they travel on a pilgrimage to the cathedral at Canterbury.

SpongeBob goes to another time in two royal adventures.

Max se ha empeñado en ser un caballero. Lástima que ese sueño sea tan improbable como encontrar un dragón amigo. Pero cuando el tío de Max, Budrick, es secuestrado por el cruel Rey Gastley, Max tiene que actuar... ¡y rápido! Junto con una banda de valientes aventureros, la pandilla medieval, Max se embarca en una aventura emocionante: ¡salvar al tío Budrick y restaurar el reino de Byjovia a su antiguo espíritu! ¡Las aventuras más divertidas...

"Swan Lake meets Robin Hood when the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant by day becomes the region's most notorious poacher by night, and falls in love with the forester"--

"Siblings Perri and Archer are on another whimsical, time traveling adventure. This time they're in Medieval England. Travel with them as they jest a jester, aid an archer, and join a joust."--Back cover.