Review: Crusade
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Name: Aidan
School: Torry Academy
Occupation: Young person
Age: 13
Book: Crusade
Rating: 7
Review:
Adam is a serf from the English midlands who is convinced that the only way his dead mother will get to heaven is if he is able to scatter some soil from Jerusalem over her village grave. In order to obtain this stony beneficence he joins up for service under the local feudal knight. Salim, meanwhile, is a Muslim boy of the same age who has been apprenticed to Saladin's personal physician. Slowly the boys paths move towards each other coming together outside the port of Acre where the Christian and Saracen armies engage in a bad tempered stand off that lasts for months.
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