Jinks, Catherine. Pagan's scribe.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)

From: Kliatt | Date: March 1, 2005| Author: Rohrlick, Paula | Copyright information

JINKS, Catherine. Pagan's scribe. (Pagan Chronicles.) Candlewick Press. 368p. map. c2005.0-7636-2022-X. $16.99. SA

This last novel in a four-book series about medieval times, following Pagan's Cruz sade, Pagan in Exile, and Pagan's Vows, is set in Languedoc, in southern France, in 1209. Pagan is now Archdeacon of Carassonne, and because he is shortsighted, he has hired as his scribe young book-loving Isidore, who narrates in the present tense. Pagan has been traveling ab...

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