Fen Gold by Joan Lennon
Fen Gold by Joan Lennon
(Suggested reading level: Grades 4-6)
This is Pip and Perfect's second adventure, following Ely Plot. Pip is a young orphaned boy who lives at Wicket Monastery deep in the fens of medieval England. Perfect, his companion, is a small, talking, swimming, flying dragon gargoyle, and they make a great pair, lively, adventurous true friends.
It's a sweltering summer when two strangers arrive at the monastery in need of medical help. The first is a man from the King's court, the second is older Norseman who is accompanied by two brawny young men and a girl, the Lady Rane.
The Lady Rane was different: exotic, unlikely, a breath of fresh air, wild like the open sea ... golden. In their minds, the Brothers looked for the right words, and often found, instead, memories of things long forgotten, from childhood, or stories of faraway places that had stirred them once, emotions and dreams from the time before the habit of Wickit...