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Lionheart’s Scribe by Karleen Bradford follows Matthew, a young boy with a crippled foot. Matthew is a scribe working for his master Vulgrin in Sicily and is extremely excited to find out that King Richard of England is visiting while on crusade. After becoming fed up with Vulgrin Matthew escapes onto a crusade ship. On his journey Matthew meets many important monarchs and even continues his work as a scribe. This story is full of interesting characters and exciting true events. One thing I really liked about this story was how the author showed different perspectives of the crusade. She showed how the Christian army viewed it as a service to god and thought that Muslims were going against god, whereas the Muslims thought they were just defending their land. Something I didn’t like about this book was the anti-climactic ending. I understand that as a historical fiction book the author wanted to make the ending historically accurate, but I would have appreciated a more interesting ending. I think this book was historically accurate because it accurately described true events and incorporated real people living during that time.