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A review by jhen314
The Book of Boy by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
2.0
I went back and forth about this book. I still maintain that it would be a little slow and old-sounding to engage many middle school students, but I do think that it would be a useful recommendation for a 7th grade social studies class studying the middle ages.
Boy is a hunchback who lives on a manor in rural France in 1350. One day, a pilgrim comes by the manor, on his way way to seek the second of seven relics that he will need to get into heaven. At first Boy is not comfortable with the pilgrim and does not want to go, but soon realizes that if he goes all the way to Rome he might be able to ask that his hump be removed so that he can be seen as a regular boy and not a monster, as most of the superstitious townsfolk see him. As in any good literary journey, Boy is changed, but not in the way he anticipates.
Boy is a hunchback who lives on a manor in rural France in 1350. One day, a pilgrim comes by the manor, on his way way to seek the second of seven relics that he will need to get into heaven. At first Boy is not comfortable with the pilgrim and does not want to go, but soon realizes that if he goes all the way to Rome he might be able to ask that his hump be removed so that he can be seen as a regular boy and not a monster, as most of the superstitious townsfolk see him. As in any good literary journey, Boy is changed, but not in the way he anticipates.