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It's July 1478, and business is good for Bristol's bakers during the lead up to Lammastide - 'Loaf-mass', the ancient harvest festival. But the shady Jasper Fairbrother's baking days are over when he's found face down with a knife in his back. Suspicion immediately falls on the mysterious Breton who'd arrived that day. But when it emerges that the Breton is also a suspected Lancastrian spy, Roger the Chapman begins to wonder if suspicion of murder...
10) The potato man
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Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Grandpa tells stories of the fruit and vegetable huckster in his childhood neighborhood, a man he learns to appreciate after a rocky start.
13) New feet for old
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[1992]
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When a peddler who sells feet from town to town depletes his stock just before a crippled boy comes to him for new feet, he realizes there is only one thing to do.
14) Firehorse Max
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Pub. Date
1997
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Grandpa Lev buys a new horse, Max, to pull his peddler's cart. Max used to be a firehorse, so whenever he hears the alarm bells ring, he takes off for the fire. Grandpa Lev has to find a way to keep Max from running off with the cart every time he hears an alarm.
15) One fine trade
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Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Georgy Piney Woods, the best peddler who ever lived, makes several trades so his daughter can buy a wedding dress.
Pub. Date
[2005]
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Bronco buster Gene trains wild steeds and then sells them to the Saddle Rock stagecoach line. Doc Lockwood and his gang are Gene's only competitor, and they are trying to wipe him out. So Gene teams up with a preacher to tame the town that the law forgot. Arlie Williams is the courageous stagecoach line manager, Panhandle Gibbs is a traveling peddler, and Little Champ, helps his pa and Gene.