The King's Fifth: A Newbery Honor Award Winner - Paperback
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The King's Fifth: A Newbery Honor Award Winner - Paperback
$15.99
by Scott O'Dell (Author)
A 1967 Newbery Honor Book
While awaiting trial for murder and withholding from the king the obligatory fifth of the gold found in Cibola, Esteban, a seventeen-year-old cartographer, recalls his adventures with a band of conquistadors.Back Jacket
In this deeply affecting novel Scott O'Dell envelops the reader in the heroic world of the conquistadors, a world that is at once somber and many-colored. ruthless they may have been, these steel-helmeted young men of Spain, but they lived their lives on the very edge of eternity with style and uncommon courage.
Author Biography
Scott O'Dell (1898-1989), one of the most respected authors of historical fiction, received the Newbery Medal, three Newbery Honor Medals, and the Hans Christian Andersen Author Medal, the highest international recognition for a body of work by an author of books for young readers. Some of his many books include The Island of the Blue Dolphins, The Road to Damietta, Sing Down the Moon, and The Black Pearl.
Number of Pages: 272
Dimensions: 0.8 x 7.6 x 5.1 IN
Publication Date: September 01, 2006
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: King's Fifth
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 5.5
Point Value: 10
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