Crossing to Paradise

By Kevin Crossley-Holland

Subjects: Literacy, Self-actualization (Psychology), Great britain, history, fiction, Middle ages, fiction, Christian life, fiction, Arthur, king, fiction, Pilgrims and pilgrimages, Singing, fiction, Singing, Christian life, Middle Ages, Fiction, Children's fiction, Literacy, fiction, History

Description: When fifteen-year-old Gatty, an illiterate field-girl who sings beautifully, is selected for a pilgrimage, she travels from her home on an English estate to London, Venice, and eventually Jerusalem, and experiences great changes in her circumstances and in herself.