Title: The seeing stone /
Authors: Crossley-Holland, Kevin
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Arthur, Juvenile fiction.; Magic Juvenile fiction; Identity (Philosophical concept) Juvenile fiction.; Middle Ages Juvenile fiction.; Great Britain History Juvenile fiction.; Great Britain History Juvenile fiction.
Abstract: In late twelfth-century England, a thirteen-year-old boy named Arthur recounts how Merlin gives him a magical seeing stone which shows him images of the legendary King Arthur, the events of whose life seem to have many parallels to his own.
Contents: Arthur and Merlin -- Terrible secret -- Into the bullring -- My black king finger -- Duty -- Coeur De Lion -- My tailbone -- Little Luke and pigeon pie -- Tumber hill -- Sleeping king -- Jack words -- Fever -- Knowing and understanding -- Jumpers and my writing room -- Nine -- Three sorrows, three fears, three joys -- Tempest's teeth -- Just Jack -- Nain in armor -- Obsidian -- Lance and longbow -- Long live the king! -- Messenger's complaint -- Royal brothers -- Ice and fire -- Merlin -- Muffled -- Peddler -- Luke -- Poor stupid -- Seeing stone -- On my own -- Nutshells and good earth -- Desire -- Flyting -- Hallowe'en -- Passion -- Strange saints -- Uther explains -- Schoolmen, scribes, and artists -- Mouthfuls of air -- Foster child -- Crossing places -- Luke's illness -- Pains -- Unfair song -- New bow -- Ice -- Baptism -- My name -- Hooter and worse -- My quest -- Brother -- Between breath and breath -- Hares and angels -- Pots of tears -- Half-dead king -- Lady Alice and my tailbone -- Grace and Tom -- Fifth son -- Goshawk -- Thin ice -- Devil's berries -- Rot and bad blood -- Art of forgetting -- Hot and important -- Gates of paradise -- Words for Luke -- Despair -- Manor court -- Butterflies -- Merlin and the archbishop -- Acorn -- Spelling -- Pope's proclamation -- Nothing's not worth hiding -- Foul stroke -- Not yet -- Archbishop's messenger -- Knight in the yellow dress -- Tanwen's secret -- King John's Christmas present -- Nine gifts -- Sword in the stone -- Splatting and sword-pulling -- Riding to London -- Christmas -- Sir Kay -- Fourth son -- Turning of the century -- Lightly and fiercely -- Whole armor -- King of Britain -- Blood-truths -- Son of Uther -- Blood on the snow -- Unhooded -- At once -- What matters -- Song of the North Star.