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O.K. I'm stumped here. A history teachers is having his sophomores read a novel about or an original work from Europe 1000-1700 A.D. At first I didn't know why 1000--then I remembered 1066, The Battle of Hastings! Anyway, the time period eliminates Arthur (sixth century) as well as all the exciting novels about the French Revolution. I tried What Do Young Adults Read Next's time period index. I don't have a Fiction Catalog. I looked in the card catalog (yes, an actual wooden drawer with 3x5 cards with holes in them) under Middle Ages-Fiction, but this isn't really the Middle Ages (486-1453, according to the American Heritage Dictionary). It does take in the Renaissance (14th-16th century). So I used the list posted by Elaine Ezell on 1/18/95, but that included Arthurian things. So far I have: Stone The Agony and the Ecstasy Gerson The Conqueror's Wife Kelly The Trumpeter of Krakow Pyle Otto of the Silver Hand Cervantes Don Quixote Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Swift Gulliver's Travels Scott Ivanhoe A student referred me to the World Book under literature, and I highly recommend the timeline found there. Authors and literature from the time period include French Troubadours, Minnesingers, Das Nibelungenlied (and as a German major, I had to read these a good while ago), Scandinavian sagas, Dante, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Chaucer, Robelais, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Moliere, Jonathan Swift, and John Bunyan. I'm not sure about a lot of the titles on Elaine's list. The thing is, once the students have selected a book (by Friday, February 10), they are not allowed to change their minds and must stick with it until June. Any others come to your collective minds? A lot of eager sophomores are waiting for your replies. Thanks so much, Diane Oestreich Fullerton Union High School 201 E. Chapman Avenue Fullerton, CA 92634 714-870-3729 doestre@eis.calstate.edu