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A homework pack that contains book and audio versions of "Crispin: The Cross of Lead," a story in which an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England, falsely accused of theft and murder, flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret; and includes a student worksheet and teacher's guide.

After the death of her foster mother, sixteen-year-old Kat goes to London to seek the answers to her parentage, and surprisingly finds herself invited into Queen Elizabeth's court.

The alternating narratives of art tutor Samuel Godwin and governess Charlotte Agnew, who work for the wealthy Farrow family in 1898 England, reveal the secrets that almost everyone in the household is hiding.

Living with her father in the Tower of London during the reign of Henry VIII, Moss is disgusted and revolted by both her father's job (executioner) and hers (collecting the freshly severed heads) and wants desperately to escape and find out more about her origins.