Adam of the Road

This Newbery Medal-winning classic transports readers to 13th-century England, following 11-year-old Adam, son of a wandering minstrel. When his father mysteriously vanishes and his beloved spaniel, Nick, is stolen, Adam must navigate the vibrant, sometimes dangerous, roads of medieval England alone. His journey is a quest for reunion, a coming-of-age story, and a vivid immersion into the historical period, filled with rich details of minstrel life, fairs, and the diverse people of the time. It's an absorbing tale of perseverance, loyalty, and finding one's way.

Puffin Book Edition From the back cover of this book: “Elizabeth Gray has re-created, with superb effect, a period of English history glowing with life and color...this absorbing story will take its place among the finest historical stories for children.” ~ *Horn Book* Eleven-year-old Adam loved to travel through the open roads of thirteenth-century England with his father, a wandering minstrel, and his red spaniel, Nick. But when his father suddenly disappears and Nick is stolen, Adam finds himself alone searching the same roads filled with rich merchants,pilgrims with cockleshells upon their hats, farming folk driving pigs to the fair, minstrels and priests, saints and thieves~and somewhere in the crowd his father and his dog.