![]() ![]() Krakow is also made central to the story, as Kelly lovingly details its various buildings and streets. This is a fine historical adventure, written in a clear but highly literate style, full of drama and suspense. The family is shadowed and accosted several times by a mysterious rogue, who turns out to be a dreaded Ukranian warlord who originally drove them from their home and is out to steal a priceless treasure which, to Joseph’s surprise, his father is guarding for the king. In the tower there, he plays on the hour the Heynal, a theme that is traditionally broken off in mid-note out of respect for a brave Polish lad who was killed by an arrow while playing it as Tartars advanced. Joseph becomes a watchman in the Church of Our Lady Mary. ![]() ![]() The family befriends a wise scholar and goes to live in the house of an alchemist and his daughter. Joseph Charnetski, a fifteen-year-old, travels with his family to Krakow after their home and fields in the Ukraine were destroyed. The 1929 Newbery winner, this novel is set in Poland, 1461. ![]()
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