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1) Paperback Book Adam of the Road (Newbery Library, Puffin) by Puffin. Adam of the Road is a children´s novel written by Elizabeth Janet Gray and illustrated by Robert Lawson. It won the Newbery Medal in 1943. Adam of the Road chronicles the adventures of Adam, an eleven year old minstrel in thirteenth-century England, as he travels with his father and dog.
Adam of the Road is over 300 pages, making it rather long for a children´s novel (perhaps in this post-Harry Potter era, this is not the case, although Adam of the Road is geared to a younger audience). Adam´s adventures keep the book moving fairly well, although it does tend to drag a little toward the end.
The book may hold some interest for adults as well, although they may be off-put by the fairly one-dimensional supporting characters and the narrator´s constant explanation of Adam´s emotional state (at least in children´s fiction these writing flaws are defensible, and even deliberate). Some great degree of suspense is lost, however, if the reader scans the back of the cover. The reader knows what the dramatic crises of the book will be, then waits half the book for them to occur. As the book approaches its end, the reader may well become impatient for the inevitable satisfactory resolutions.
What Gray does well is give an excellent depiction of the thirteenth century. She immerses the reader in the medieval world to a degree reminiscent of Twain´s The Prince and the Pauper (even if it is somewhat sanitized for children). She uses the terminology of the day, too, so even adults would be advised to keep a dictionary handy.
Adam of the Road is a fine children´s novel, even if it is a little flawed. It´s definitely worth a read by anyone with in interest in medieval life.
¤ 2) Paperback Book Adam of the Road (Newbery Library, Puffin) by Puffin. Good Book vs Bad Book (hard choice)
This was not exactly the best book but it´s a pretty decent book. It is one of those novels you can put to the side if you have other books on your shelf. If you´re wondering whether you should read this book or not. This review might help.
Below is a summary of this book.
Adam is sick of being stuck there without his father, and looks for him everyday. He does, however, make a best friend named Perkin. One day while visiting the widow, Dame Malkin, who kept Nick for him because dogs weren´´t allowed at the Abbey, she tells him a surprise bit of news she has heard about his father. He finds out his father may be traveling into town with the court of Sir Edmund de´´Lisle, who Roger is working for.
As soon as he finds this out he runs to the top of hill, with his harp, his dog, and his friend, to await the coming court who would bring his father, Roger the Minstrel. He is not disappointed when, at the end of the train, he recognizes a figure on a warhorse, with a viol slung over his shoulder. It was Roger! He ran up to him shouting "Roger, Roger". The man stopped, recognizes his son, and they have a quick reunion. Adam then asks if he is going to be travelling with him, and his father says yes, the next morning they will be leaving for London with Sir Edmund´´s court.
" A road is home to a minstrel", Adam´´s father says. Buth the rough roads of early England were also home to bands of thieves and robber knights. Before their journey begins, Adam´´s dog is stolen and his father disappears. Adam is eleven years old, but is determined to travel alone, to find his father and dog.
This is a great children´´s classic, set in medieval England. Great for just reading to or with your children, or if they are learning about this period in history. It gives great detail about the life in those times.
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I give this book three stars because it wasn´t one of those "hard to put down books". I recomment this book for students 12-14. There is nothing really difficult to understand about this book but at some points, it does get sort of boring.
It´s a good book to do a book report on any of you students who have to do summer projects. It is a really easy took to understand and can be pictured in your head.
F.W.I. This book was written from a twelve-year-olds view.
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¤ 3) Paperback Book Adam of the Road (Newbery Library, Puffin) by Puffin. Good book for a middle school reader about a young, would be joker in medieval timess.¤ 4) Paperback Book Adam of the Road (Newbery Library, Puffin) by Puffin. There´s was a eleven year old boy named Adam. Adam and his father loved to travel the thirteenth century of England. Adam also brong a spaiel. Nick,Adam brother was stolen and Adam father suddenly look at. The roads was filled up with rich merchants, pilgrims. The road also filled up with thieves and sanits and priest´s. Adam also had a dog.their were horse´s that made Adam scream off the road again to hide behind a broken down rock. Adam was looking around after getting scared of the horse´s and saw a couple of people stealing form a rich merchant. Adam said stop but then saw sheriff along the road and the sheriff stop them.
I like how his father got lost because, Adam to meet new people and Adam had a adventure. I didnt like how Adam brother got stolen because who would steal a kid and it would be dum t have a adventure by your self.¤ 5) Paperback Book Adam of the Road (Newbery Library, Puffin) by Puffin. There´s was a eleven year old boy named Adam. Adam and his father loved to travel the thirteenth century of England. Adam also brong a spaiel. Nick,Adam brother was stolen and Adam father suddenly look at. The roads was filled up with rich merchants, pilgrims. The road also filled up with thieves and sanits and priest´s. Adam also had a dog.their were horse´s that made Adam scream off the road again to hide behind a broken down rock. Adam was looking around after getting scared of the horse´s and saw a couple of people stealing form a rich merchant. Adam said stop but then saw sheriff along the road and the sheriff stop them.
I like how his father got lost because, Adam to meet new people and Adam had a adventure. I didnt like how Adam brother got stolen because who would steal a kid and it would be dum t have a adventure by your self.¤ 6) Paperback Book Adam of the Road (Newbery Library, Puffin) by Puffin. 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.¤ Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 12-Nov-2008, 014032464X9780140324648, 590-4X0-950-980-410-140-8 
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