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Adam of the road / by Elizabeth Janet Gray, illustrated by Robert Lawson.
LIBRA PS3572.I55 A623 1942
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vining, Elizabeth Gray, 1902-1999.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Minstrels.
- History.
- Great Britain--History--Plantagenets, 1154-1399--Juvenile fiction.
- Great Britain.
- Middle Ages--Fiction.
- Middle Ages.
- Minstrels--Fiction.
- Great Britain--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking Press, 1942.
- Summary:
- The adventures of eleven-year-old Adam as he travels the open roads of thirteenth-century England searching for his missing father, a minstrel, and his stolen red spaniel, Nick.
- Contents:
- Adam
- Nick
- Roger
- Road
- Going to London
- Blush of boys
- Jankin
- Red in the morning
- Night in Westhumble Lane
- Here, nick!
- Adam swims the wey
- Ferryman's house
- Arrows in the king's forest
- Adam to the rescue
- St. Giles's fair
- "Fall of Adam"
- Adam meets some minstrels
- Hue and cry
- News of Roger
- "What have you done with him?"
- Adam's song
- Adam helps a plowman
- Loud sing cuckoo!
- Notes:
- Map on lining-papers.
- "First published April 1942."
- Newbery Medal, 1943.
- ISBN:
- 0670104353
- 9780670104352
- OCLC:
- 4921955
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