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The Bell & Nobody's Child

Story Stats

Rating: 5
Grade Level: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Page count: 18
Categories: Arthurian, Fantasy

Author

Michael
Morpurgo

Appeared in

Arthur: High King of Britain

Story Summary

On the coast of Wales, a young boy rises early to walk the seabed to Samson island during low tide. But he has misjudged the tide and finds himself drowning only to awaken in a mysterious cave inhabited by an ancient and somewhat strange old man - Arthur Pendragon. The beginning two chapters of an incredible retelling of the King Arthur legend by Michael Morpurgo.