Knight's fee

By Rosemary Sutcliff

Subjects: Children's stories, Fiction, Children's fiction, Orphans, Great britain, history, norman period, 1066-1154, fiction, Juvenile fiction, History, Friendship, Knights and knighthood

Description: In late eleventh-century England, Randal, a young orphan at Arundel Castle, is won by a minstrel in a chess game and finds his life transformed when he is sent to be companion and squire to the grandson of the kind Sir Everard of Dean.