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4.5/5 Barnes & Noble Language English Publication date September 2006 Originally published September 2006 Followed by Crispin: The End of Time | 3.7/5 Goodreads Country England Series Avi's Crispin Pages 234 pgs. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (hardback & paperback) Preceded by Crispin: The Cross of Lead Publisher Disney Publishing Worldwide Genres Historical novel, Children's literature Similar Avi books, Children's literature | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Crispin: At the Edge of the World is a novel released in 2006 by Edward Irving Wortis, serving as a sequel to his 2003 Newbery Medal award winner Crispin: The Cross of Lead. Crispin: At The Edge of the World was an ALA notable in 2007. It is the second book in the Crispin trilogy.
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Plot summary
At the conclusion of the Newbery Award–winning Crispin: The Cross of Lead, Bear and Crispin are free to follow new lives. As they travel in search of a new home, Bear is attacked by his old comrades in the Peasant's Revolt and wounded by an arrow. They escape to a woods where they are discovered by an old midwife-healer and a girl named Troth, who nurses Bear back to health. When the old woman is killed, Bear becomes the guardian of both children.
Fearing Bear's pursuers will never give up, they board a ship bound for Flanders. A storm lands them in France instead, where they are captured by English soldiers intent on breaking into a French village church to loot it. The soldiers threaten harm to Bear unless the children do their bidding. A bloody battle ensues, during which Crispin kills a man. The children escape the church and the soldiers with the mortally wounded Bear, who later dies of age and his wounds.