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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Description
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) Firehorse Max
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Formats
Description
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.
11) One fine trade
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Georgy Piney Woods, the best peddler who ever lived, makes several trades so his daughter can buy a wedding dress.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1995.
Description
A town paralyzed with fear, two children gone missing. Roger's most difficult case yet...
April 1475. As Roger approaches the thriving village of Totnes, danger crackles in the air. A pack of cutthroats wanders the forest after a night of pillaging, and Roger barely manages to hide from them in the brush.
He soon learns that the marauding band has been terrorizing the countryside for weeks. And worse, they are believed to be responsible for the disappearance...
13) Se venden gorras
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"A tale of a peddler, some monkeys and their monkey business." Naughty monkeys steal the peddler's hats when he takes a nap under their tree.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
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.
17) Pennies in a jar
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young boy whose father is serving overseas during World War II struggles to overcome his fears, especially his fear of the horses that pull trade wagons through his neighborhood, as he works odd jobs for money to buy his father a birthday present.
18) Jacob's way
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Fleeing a bloody pogrom (or massacre) that threatens their tiny Russian village, Reisa Dimitri and her grandfather, Jacob, sail the ocean to a new life in America. They are swiftly embraced by New York's Jewish community. But God has other plans that will call them far from the familiar warmth and ways of their culture. Accompanied by their friend Dov, Reisa and Jacob set out to make their living as traveling merchants in the post-Civil War South....
Author
Series
Roger the Chapman tales volume 5
Pub. Date
1996.
Description
The Duke of Gloucester asks Roger to discover the identity, motive, and method of the man who plans to assassinate him.