The Inquisitor's Tale, or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy dog

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Call Number: R Newbery Honor 2017, Y Fiction / Gidwitz, Adam, Kids Book / Fiction / Action & Adventure / Gidwitz, Adam
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Traverwood Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Kids Reference 0-week checkout	R Newbery Honor 2017	0-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown Kids Books 4-week checkout	Y Fiction / Gidwitz, Adam	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown Kids Books 4-week checkout	Y Fiction / Gidwitz, Adam	4-week checkout	Due 05-13-2024
Malletts Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Fiction / Action & Adventure / Gidwitz, Adam	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Fiction / Action & Adventure / Gidwitz, Adam	4-week checkout	Due 05-21-2024
Traverwood Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Fiction / Action & Adventure / Gidwitz, Adam	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Fiction / Action & Adventure / Gidwitz, Adam	4-week checkout	Due 05-11-2024
Westgate Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Fiction / Action & Adventure / Gidwitz, Adam	4-week checkout	Due 05-19-2024

"A peasant girl and her holy greyhound, an oblate on a mission from his monastery, and a young Jewish boy travel across medieval France to escape persecution and save holy texts from being burned"-- Provided by publisher.

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Twisty and surprising submitted by FordAlpha on June 15, 2018, 8:54pm To begin with my main complaint: the framing of this story doesn't work very well. Although the main characters have distinct voices and make believable choices, the multiple storytellers who relate their tale mostly don't have distinct or believable voices, apart from a few amusing asides, and their narrative omniscience is overly convenient (although this is acknowledged in a few awkward, inadequate asides).

Otherwise, I enjoyed "The Inquisitor's Tale" very much. It's full of twists and surprises, rarely going in quite the direction I expected. It gives considerable depth, richness, and light to a Medieval world that is largely overlooked in history classes and often regarded as dark and featureless. The characters and events are strange, often funny, often moving, and always absorbing. Although the author chooses mostly colloquial language that is not difficult for a contemporary reader to understand, I feel that the story's tone and content are largely true to the period depicted.

I am an adult who enjoys reading well reviewed children's fiction, so I can't say whether the target middle-grade audience will enjoy this novel as much as I did. Parents should be aware that like Adam Gidwitz' earlier work ("A Tale Dark and Grimm") and the Medieval tales that inspired it, this book has some shockingly gory moments.

WIERD submitted by yysongenator on June 17, 2019, 9:40pm VERY WEIRD BUT GOOD