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"The girl who led an army, the peasant who crowned a king, the maid who became a legend. It is the fifteenth century, and the tumultuous Hundred Years' War rages on. France is under siege, English soldiers tear through the countryside destroying all who cross their path, and Charles VII, the uncrowned king, has neither the strength nor the will to rally his army. And in the quiet of her parents' garden in Domr�my, a peasant girl sees a spangle of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
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In 1455 in France, Gabrielle is visited by Pierre d'Arc, a brother of Joan of Arc, and with him reminisces about their childhood together in Domremy and Joan's subsequent trial and burning at the stake at Rouen twenty-four years before.
6) Young Joan
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
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Joan, a girl growing up in the French countryside during the Hundred Years' War, begins to hear voices telling her she is destined to reunite her torn country in opposition to the English invaders.
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"It is as if Chen has crept inside a statue and breathed a soul into it, re-creating Joan of Arc as a woman for our time."--Hilary Mantel, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Booker Prize winner Wolf Hall "This is not your grandmother's St. Joan. . . . If every generation gets the Joan it deserves, ours could do worse than an ass-kicking, avenging angel fighting simply for the right to fight."--The New York Times Book Review 1412. France is...
11) Joan of Arc
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Wishbone classics volume 4
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 4
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A retelling of the story of Joan of Arc, who was destined to lead the people of France in war against English invaders, narrated by Wishbone the dog.
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"The Language of Fire is a lyrical, dark, and moving look at the life of Joan of Arc, who as a teen girl in the fifteenth century commanded an army and helped crown a king of France. This extraordinary verse novel from award-winning author Stephanie Hemphill dares to imagine how an ordinary girl became a great leader, and ultimately saved a nation."--Jacket flap.
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Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
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While sitting on the riverbank in the ancient French city of Orleans, seventeen-year-old Eloise hears a voice, which relates the adventures and struggles of the medieval heroine Joan of Arc as she fights to free France by driving out the English.
14) Voices
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[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 3
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"David Elliott explores how Joan of Arc changed the course of history and remains a figure of fascination centuries after her extraordinary life and death in a fiery, evocative novel-in-verse."--Provided by publisher.
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