The Player King

"Swiftly moving and utterly engrossing." --Shelf Awareness

Parents' Choice Recommended

From Newbery Award-winning author Avi comes the gripping and amazingly true tale of a boy plucked from the gutter to become the King of England.

England, 1486. King Henry VII has recently snatched the English Crown and now sits on the throne, while young Prince Edward, who has a truer claim, has apparently disappeared. Meanwhile, a penniless kitchen boy named Lambert Simnel is slaving away at a tavern in Oxford--until a mysterious friar, Brother Simonds, buys Lambert from the tavern keeper and whisks him away in the dead of night. But this is nothing compared to the secret that the friar reveals: You, Lambert, are actually Prince Edward, the true King of England

With the aid of the deceitful Earl of Lincoln, Brother Simonds sets out to teach the boy how to become the rightful English king. Lambert has everything to gain and nothing to lose, or so he thinks. Yet in this dangerous battle for the throne, Lambert is not prepared for what's to come--or for what it really means to play at being a king.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Published: 10/17/2017
ISBN: 9781481437684
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 0.90d

Review Citations: Booklist 07/01/2017 pg. 60
School Library Journal 08/01/2017
Publishers Weekly 08/07/2017
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2017
Shelf Awareness 10/20/2017
Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2017 pg. 94
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 11/01/2017 - Book Of Special Distinction
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2018 - Superior,Well Above Average

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 192024 / Player King
Reading Level: 4.9 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 4