Reviews by Tag: knights

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Max & the Midknights: The Tower of Time by Lincoln Pierce

Max & the Midknights: The Tower of Time

By Lincoln Pierce
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Ethan
Jul 24, 2022

Max is a young girl who is a knight-in-training, and is part of a group of adventurers known

as the Midknights. She has just learned that she has a twin sister, named Mary, and wants to

become reunited with her and learn more about their past. However, Mary is on the run for the

many crimes that she has commited, and can be nowhere to be find. In order to find her sister and

learn more about her past, Max must go on a journey with the Midknights to find Mary and travel

Teen Review
Max & the Midknights by Lincoln Pierce

Max & the Midknights

By Lincoln Pierce
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Ethan
Jul 24, 2022

Max is a young troubadour traveling with Uncle Budrick across the land. However, Max

doesn’t want to be a troubadour, but instead a knight. Max is soon given the chance to become a

hero when both her and Uncle Budrick arrive in Byjovia. There they find out that King Gastley

has taken control of the kingdom, making Byjovia no longer the great land it once was. To make

matters worse, Max’s uncle is soon taken away by Gastley and sent to his palace! In order to save

Teen Review
Max & the Midknights: Battle of the Bodkins by Lincoln Pierce

Max & the Midknights: Battle of the Bodkins

By Lincoln Pierce
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Ethan
Jul 24, 2022

The story is set in the middle ages and focused on a girl named Max and her friends, the

Midknights. Max wants to become a knight and go on great adventures, so she is currently

attending knight school. However, her homeland, Byjovia, is soon under attack by creatures that

can take the form of any Byjovian! These creatures are known as the bodkins! In order to protect

Byjovia and defeat the bodkins, Max and the Midknights must travel to the creatures’ homeland,

Teen Review
Woven by Michael Jensen and David Powers King

Woven

By Michael Jensen and David Powers King
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Sophie G.
Jul 12, 2022

Woven is the story of Nels, who has been desperate to be a knight for the kingdom of Avërand since he was young. However, despite his height and strength, he’s ignored by the knighthood. Instead, Nels goes around helping his village, until he is murdered. Nels awakes as a ghost, only able to be seen by spoiled princess Tyra. The two must work together to find out who killed Nels, and how it all relates to an ancient needle with the ability to mend and weave the world.

Teen Review
Squire by Sara Alfageeh and Nadia Shammas

Squire

By Sara Alfageeh and Nadia Shammas
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Tyler H.
Jun 15, 2022

Squire is a story about Aiza, a girl who wishes to be a knight. Throughout all of her childhood she has struggled as she is a part of the Ornu people who were captured long ago and are not granted full citizenship. Knighthood is her only path to citizenship and her one true desire. But things are a lot harder than Aiza expected. The war isn’t as black and white as it might have seemed. Maybe she isn’t being turned into a noble knight, but just yet another killing machine.

Teen Review
Alanna The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce

Alanna: The First Adventure

By Tamora Pierce
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Micaela R.
Jun 4, 2021

10-year-old Alanna of Trebond wants to be a knight. Unfortunately, in the land of Tortall, girls of noble birth are sent to the convent to learn the skills they will need as the wives of knights and lords. Her twin brother, Thom, wants to learn to use the powerful magic that they were both born with, but as the only son of the fief of Trebond, Thom must become a knight of the realm. Alanna and Thom trade places, so that Alanna, disguised as a boy, can travel to Corus to become a great knight and Thom can travel to the City of the Gods to study magic.

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