The words etched on his mother's treasured lead cross may provide ... preferably dead. Crispin flees, and falls in with a traveling juggler. "I have no name," Crispin tells Bear, whose rough ...

Unlike Crispin, Bear can read and has learned from an inscription on the lead cross Crispin wears, that Crispin is the illegitimate son of a wealthy official who has died recently. This is the ...

Unlike Crispin, Bear can read and has learned from an inscription on the lead cross Crispin wears, that Crispin is the illegitimate son of a wealthy official who has died recently. This is the ...

The village priest gives him a small cross of lead bearing ... outlaw. In Crispin’s flight from the village, his fortunes are bound up with a wandering juggler-musician named Bear.

In top awards given annually to children's book writers and illustrators, Crispin: The Cross of Lead, by Avi ... The book follows Crispin and Bear, a juggler who befriends him.

Avi's "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" was awarded the 2003 Newbery Medal on Monday. Eric Rohmann's "My Friend Rabbit" won the Caldecott Medal for children's book illustration. "Crispin" is a coming ...

Avi's "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" was awarded the 2003 Newbery Medal. Eric Rohmann's "My Friend Rabbit" won the Caldecott Medal for children's book illustration. "Crispin" is a coming-of-age ...

Avi's "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" was awarded the 2003 Newbery Medal, while Eric Rohmann's "My Friend Rabbit" won the Caldecott Medal for children's book illustration. "Crispin" is a coming-of ...

Avi's "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" was awarded the 2003 Newbery Medal on Monday. Eric Rohmann's "My Friend Rabbit" won the Caldecott Medal for children's book illustration. "Crispin" is a coming ...

Avi's "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" was awarded the 2003 Newbery Medal. Eric Rohmann's "My Friend Rabbit" won the Caldecott Medal for children's book illustration. "Crispin" is a coming-of-age ...