Cross Of Lead By Crispin The Cross Of Lead

Imagine Being a poor kid whose father and mother died in the year 1377 A.D. Imagine being accused of stealing from the person who owns the village you live in. Imagine being chased out of town by guards into the wilderness. That’s exactly what happened to a 13-year-old boy named Crispin. Earning only a penny a day, barely getting by Crispin and his mom survived until his mom died and that’s when he had to pay the death tax. Unable to pay the death tax he ran into the forest. He got caught listening to a private in meeting that made him a wolf’s head so that anyone may kill him for a prize of a handbag of pennies.

I chose this book because I started reading a while ago in school and liked it, but the class stopped reading it and moved into the book not far into the book. I think it is a good book for 7th and 8th graders because it has a good plot, and shows how hard it was to live after the black plague.
The priest there told them learned that John Ayecliff said that Crispin had killed a priest and stole money from the John Ayecliff's manor which made him a wolf’s head. In result Crispin has to stay hidden until he becomes