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This is a lighthearted middle-grade fantasy adventure with gentle humor and a peasant hero who uses cleverness and courage to overcome challenges. The story celebrates perseverance, kindness, and intelligence over brute strength or noble birth. Any action sequences are played for comedic effect rather than dramatic tension, making it well-suited for the target age group.
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With no knightly experience but plenty of pluck and an impressive vocabulary, a twelve-year-old peasant, hoping to improve his station in life, volunteers to help a cowardly prince and his not very powerful wizard rescue a princess from an evil, foul-smelling monster. With no knightly experience but plenty of pluck and an impressive vocabulary, a twelve-year-old peasant, hoping to improve his station in life, volunteers to help a cowardly prince and his not very powerful wizard rescue a princess from an evil, foul-smelling monster.
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- Juvenile Fiction
- Children's fiction
- nyt:childrens-middle-grade-hardcover=2022-03-27
- New York Times bestseller
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ISBN 9781534499263 · Simon and Schuster