Song of the Sparrow (Hardcover) by Lisa Ann Sandell

from Y-NhiVu

I love this book. It's structure is different from most books. It's in lyric form, which matches the story line. The story line is based in the Arthurian legends, but revolves around a young girl that lives in the army camp with her family. She has a one sided love with Lancelot and tries to prov...

from jasmine.gomez

This book was about a girl who goes to war. She goes with her brother and father. The boy she loves ends up going to. She is scared for his life. She tells him she loves him. Her father ends up getting hurt. She crys because her love leaves for war. She marries him in the end. I gave this book a ...

from ashley06

The novel, Song of the Sparrow by Lisa Ann Sandell encompasses that love can be blind and deceiving. In the beginning, Elaine, the protagonist struggles with her unrequited love for Lancelot and fears for the lives of her brothers, her father, and her fellow army friends. Throughout the middle, s...

from viviandoughty

Anyone who's ever read "The Sword in the Stone" or any other King Arthur story would find this a fascinating way of approaching the much loved story. Not only do we see King Arthur, Lancelot, Guinevere, and Merlin through the eyes of a young girl, Elaine, but we get a full, sensory feel of the fo...

from abbylibrarian

Lisa Ann Sandell's retelling of the story of Elaine, Lady of Shalott, gives the ladies a much more powerful role than in previous versions. Elaine is a teenage girl, hopelessly in love with Lancelot. She lives at a battle camp with her father, brothers, and a couple hundred other men. She gathers...