Unit 14: The Middle Ages Novels and Chapter Books

List of Novels and Chapter books to go with Unit 14 of Big Ideas through History which covers The “Dark Ages”, Castles and Abbeys, The Plague, and the Normans.

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I have not read all of these books and there is a wide range of levels. I suggest thoroughly researching the appropriateness of each book for your situation before sharing with your children.

(affiliate links)	Section 40: ———————— The “Dark Ages”	Section 41: ———————— Castles and Abbeys	Section 42: ———————– The Plague	Peoples XIV: ———————— Normans
Horrible Histories Measly Middle Ages
The Middle Ages: An Illustrated History
Middle Ages: history of Europe
The Middle Ages
THE SARACEN STORM: A Novel of the Moorish Invasion of Spain
The Magic Runes: A Tale of the Times of Charlemagne
The Edge On The Sword
Son of Charlemagne
Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess, Page
Red Falcons Of Tremoine
Eleanor, Crown Jewel of Aquitaine: France, 1136
The Door in the Wall
The Hidden Treasure of Glaston
The Castle Corona
Emelin
A Company of Fools
Maria and the Plague: A Black Death Survival Story
The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe
The Black Death: A Captivating Guide to the Deadliest Pandemic in Medieval Europe and Human History
1348: The End of the World (Apprentices)
A Cloud of Outrageous Blue
Sir Banion and the Quest of the Black Plague
The Village
The Plague
Horrible Histories Stormin Normans
1066 (I Was There)
THE MEN OF THE DRAGON SHIPS: NORMAN HISTORY (THE NORMANS Book 1)
Split History Of The Norman Conquest
The Story of the Normans (Illustrated)
Ivanhoe
The Normans: From Raiders to Kings
The Normans in Italy 1016–1194