The Horn Book Guide

OLDER FICTION

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

At the Crossing Places: Arthur Trilogy, Book Two

394 pp. | Scholastic/Levine | October, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-439-26598-3 $$17.95

(2) YA Turn-of-the-thirteenth-century Arthur from The Seeing Stone is fourteen and struggling with his recently discovered origins. The alternating scenes in the seeing stone, too, concern the many loyalties and treacheries of love at Camelot. This volume is less dramatically intense than the first, and some of the crusaders' ideas seem rather anachronistic, but the author once again evokes a rich and credible panoply of characters.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2002