Login
Register
Home || Search || About us || Blog || Contact us || Other book sites

Name: Castle Diary

Full title: Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess
Author: Richard Platt
Year: 1999
Rank:

Rating:

Original Rating:

Popularity: 1.2
Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Children, Picture books

Purchase/research links:
"Not many, if any, children's books on the Middle Ages and castles contain the wealth of information found in this fresh, appealing offering." - SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review)

What was it really like to live in a castle? Step back to the Middle Ages with Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess.

Eleven-year-old Toby's vivid diary entries offer an insider's view of day-to-day castle life, including tips on etiquette (where do you spit at a feast?) and exciting descriptions of hunting, jousting, and harvesting.

Complete with glossary, index, and detailed endnotes, this is a rich look at medieval life that informs as much as it entertains.
Similar books:

The Sword in the Tree
by Clyde Robert Bulla

The Minstrel in the Tower
by Gloria Skurzynski

Show Way
by Jacqueline Woodson

Train to Somewhere
by Eve Bunting

Encounter
by Jane Yolen

Jackie's Bat
by Marybeth Lorbiecki

Son of Charlemagne
by Barbara Willard

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
by Deborah Hopkinson

Under the Quilt of Night
by Deborah Hopkinson

Fever 1793
by Laurie Halse Anderson

A Single Shard
by Linda Sue Park

Catherine, Called Birdy
by Karen Cushman

The Lions of Little Rock
by Kristin Levine

Lily's Crossing
by Patricia Reilly Giff

Penny from Heaven
by Jennifer L. Holm

An Episode of Sparrows
by Rumer Godden

Back Home
by Michelle Magorian

Breaking Stalin's Nose
by Eugene Yelchin

The Island on Bird Street
by Uri Orlev

Before We Were Free
by Julia Alvarez