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 nurse 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 badly wounds a man. The children escape the church and the soldiers with the mortally wounded Bear. The book ends with the children setting sail for Iceland.
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