Adam of the Road (Puffin Modern Classics)

by Elizabeth Janet Gray, Robert Lawson (Illustrator)

Overview

Eleven-year-old Adam loved to travel throughout thirteenthcentury England with his father, a wandering minstrel, and his dog, Nick. But when Nick is stolen and his father disappears, Adam suddenly finds himself alone. He searches the same roads he traveled with his father, meeting various people along the way. But will Adam ever find his father and dog and end his desperate search?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780142406595
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	10/05/2006
Series:	Puffin Modern Classics
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	330,720
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.06(h) x 0.84(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Elizabeth Janet Gray (1902–1999) was born and grew up in Philadelphia. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College, and in the years that followed, under the names Elizabeth Janet Gray and Elizabeth Gray Vining, she wrote many books for adults and children, including the Newbery Award winner Adam of the Road.   During and immediately after World War II, Elizabeth worked for the American Friends Service Committee. In 1946 she was appointed tutor to Crown Prince Akihito of Japan and later wrote the widely read Windows for the Crown Prince. She is the author of several novels and biographies and two autobiographical works.

Robert Lawson (1892–1957) received his art training at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art. His favorite medium, pen and ink, is used expressively and with detail in his black and white illustrations in The Story of Ferdinand (by Munro Leaf). In addition to illustrating many children's books, including Mr. Popper's Penguins, Lawson also wrote and illustrated a number of his own books for children. In 1940, he was awarded the Caldecott Medal for his picture book illustrations in They Were Strong and Good; and in 1944, he was awarded the Newbery Medal for his middle-grade novel Rabbit Hill.

Table of Contents

1	Adam	13
2	Nick	21
3	Roger	35
4	The Road	43
5	Going to London	55
6	A Blush of Boys	69
7	Jankin	83
8	Red in the Morning	95
9	Night in Westhumble Lane	109
10	Here, Nick!	125
11	Adam Swims the Wey	139
12	The Ferryman's House	149
13	Arrows in the King's Forest	163
14	Adam to the Rescue	177
15	St. Giles's Fair	193
16	"The Fall of Adam"	209
17	Adam Meets Some Minstrels	217
18	Hue and Cry	235
19	News of Roger	251
20	"What Have You Done with Him?"	265
21	Adam's Song	279
22	Adam Helps a Plowman	293
23	Loud Sing Cuckoo!	307