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Adam of the Road

"A road's a kind of holy thing," said Roger the Minstrel to his son, Adam. "That's why it's a good work to keep a road in repair, like giving alms to the poor or tending the sick. It's open to the sun and wind and rain. It brings all kinds of people and all parts of England together. And it's home to the minstrel, even though he may happen to be sleeping in a castle."

And Adam, though only eleven, was to remember his father's words when his beloved dog, Nick, was stolen and Roger had disappeared and Adam found himself traveling alone along these same great roads, searching the fairs and market towns for his father and his dog. 

Eleven-year-old Adam loved to travel through the open roads of thirteenth-century England with his father, a wandering minstrel, and his red spaniel, Nick. But when his father suddenly disappers and Nick is stolen, Adam finds himself alone searching these same roads filled with rich merchants, pilgrims with cockleshells upon their hats, farming folk driving pigs to the fair, minstrels and priests, saints and theives - and somewhere in the crowd his father and his dog.

Author	Elizabeth Janet Gray
Product Code	LB151
Length	317 pages
Publisher	Penguin Books
Format	Softcover, Black and White
Grade	Grade 6