- Adventure and adventurers, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Orphans
Through a series of dangerous and violent misadventures, teenage loser Alfred Kropp rescues King Arthur's legendary sword Excalibur from the forces of evil.
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Unpretentious, resolved, classical in form and effortless.
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Richard Yancey
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 339
- Publisher
- Thorndike Press, Scholastic, Folio Junior
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- Dutch, tur, French, Polish
- ISBN
- 9780747584391
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First sentence
“I never thought l would save the world-or die saving it.”
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