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The Squire's Tale {#1}

Record Added: 9/23/2010
Series The Squire's Tales #1
Setting England
Topic Fantasy
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Company
ISBN 0395869599   Year 1998
Age 9-12   Pages 212
Description Printed dustjacket
 
Terence, the squire in question, is not Chaucer's but a 14 year old of unknown parentage in Arthur's England, raised in the woods by a wizard who can see the future clearly but is foggy about the past. Gawain, not yet of the Round Table, comes across the boy and, needing a squire, takes him along.

The story then follows the nobleman through Terence's eyes. New adventures weave through the familiar, threaded on the story of the loathly damsel, here called the "ugly woman," one of the strongest of the Gawain legends. The entertaining action moves rapidly through encounters with fools and villains to Gawain earning knighthood and the love of a smart and worthy woman. His squire, who has recurring visions and contact with an interesting shape-changer, eventually learns the mystery of his own birth and his destiny.

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Series Titles Includes:
1. The Squire's Tale
2. The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady
3. The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf
4. Parsifal's Page
5. The Ballad of Sir Dinadan
6. The Princess, the Crone, and the Dung Cart Knight
7. The Lioness and Her Knight
8. The Quest of the Fair Unknown
9. The Squire's Quest
10. The Legend of the King
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