The Ravenmaster's Boy
by Mary HoffmanHistorical Fiction Teen & Young Adult Book Overview
Young Kit nds himself on a plague cart wedged between the bodies of his mother and father. But he is alive and is rescued and taken into the home of the Ravenmaster at the Tower of London. He soon nds he can speak the language of the big black birds, a skill which proves useful when he nds himself caught up in a story of queens and treason, princesses and executioners.
There can be no change in the history of Henry Vlll’s rst two wives but without Kit and the ravens another Tudor monarch might never have survived.
