Summary ~ Reviews ~ Teachers’ Guide

• One of the 100 Best Canadian Books for Today’s Children and Teens
  Selected by the Children’s Librarians of the Toronto Public Library

• The Canadian Library Association Best Young Adult Novel 1993

• Shortlisted for the Manitoba Young Reader’s Choice Award 1996

• One of the Year’s Best Books,
  the American Library Association 1996

• Selected by The Child Study Children’s Book Committee
  Children’s Books of the Year, U.S.A. 1996

• Canadian Children’s Book Centre Our Choice 1995/96

SUMMARY

The First Book of the Crusades

The daughter of an apothecary and the owner of a secret book of healing arts, Ursula is determined to become a great healer, but her ambition makes her an outsider in the Holy Roman Empire. When she is accused of witchcraft and sentenced to burn at the stake, she is given one chance to save herself: she must march in the People’s Crusade to the holy city of Jerusalem.

Harper/Collins Canada Ltd., 1992
Lodestar Books, Penguin,U.S.A., 1996
Puffin Books, Penguin USA, 1998