The King's Shadow

Elizabeth Alder First published 1995

About this book

After he is orphaned and has his tongue cut out in a clash with the bullying sons of a Welsh noble, Evyn is sold as a slave and serves many masters, from the gracious Lady Swan Neck to the valiant Harold Godwinson, England's last Saxon king.

Subjects

children's fiction
fiction
great britain, history, to 1066, fiction
history
juvenile fiction
mutism
orphans
orphans, fiction
reading level-grade 6
reading level-grade 7
reading level-grade 8