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by: Barbara Willard
List Price: $12.95Amazon.com's Price: $10.36 You Save: $2.59 (20%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9781883937218
ISBN: 1883937213
Label: Bethlehem Books
Manufacturer: Bethlehem Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 179
Publication Date: 1996-10
Publisher: Bethlehem Books
Reading Level: Young Adult
Sales Rank: 208110
Studio: Bethlehem Books
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Product Description:
It is 597 and young Wolf has journeyed many miles from Rome. He witnesses the historic meeting between the King of Kent and the man who would be known as St. Augustine of Canterbury, an event that would replant the cross in English soil.
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Rating: - My favorite book
I really liked this book. My favorite character was Wolf. I liked the ending part best where something happens to Wolf and Fritha, but you'll have to read the book to find out how it ends. When we started to read it, it became interesting, so I listened and liked the whole thing.
Rating: - A great introduction for children to this time period
This book centres around Wolf, a boy whose father was a Briton, brought to Rome as a slave in the 6th century, and set free by Pope Gregory. Pope Gregory had a concern for the propagation of the Gospel among the "heathen" Saxons in Britain, so he sent a group of monks, led by Augustine, to Britain. Wolf and his father go with them. They land there in 597, and the story follows Wolf as he returns to the land of his fathers, and as the Gospel is preached in Kent. My children, aged 7 - 13 enjoyed ... Read More
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