Also published as: Crossing To Paradise

Author: Kevin Crossley-Holland Year: 2006 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Fiction, Young adult, Fantasy, Children Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781842555705 1842555707

In the year 1203, nine companions set out on a pilgrimage. The journey - on foot, on horseback and by sea - is fraught with danger. Not all of them will come safely home. * * * Gatty is a field girl on a manor. She has never seen busy London or the bright Channel, the snowy Alps of France or the boats in the Venetian sea. She has not sung in the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem or prayed at the manger in Bethlehem -- or been kidnapped, or abandoned, or kissed, or heartbroken. But all these things will change. As Gatty journeys with Lady Gwyneth and a prickly new family of pilgrims across Europe to the Holy Land, Kevin Crossley-Holland reveals a medieval world as rich and compelling as the world of today it foresees -- and, in Gatty, a character readers will never forget. Similar books: The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan Paperboy by Vince Vawter In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord Counting on Grace by Elizabeth Winthrop Al Capone throws me a curve by Gennifer Choldenko Underground to Canada by Barbara Smucker Turn Homeward, Hannalee by Patricia Beatty Nine Days a Queen by Ann Rinaldi Sylvia & Aki by Winifred Conkling Meet Marie-Grace by Sarah M. Buckey The Golden Goblet by Eloise McGraw Madeleine Takes Command by Ethel C. Brill S.O.S. Titanic by Eve Bunting The Star Fisher by Laurence Yep The Great Plague by Pamela Oldfield Master Cornhill by Eloise McGraw Mr. Revere and I by Robert Lawson Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper