| Crispin: At the Edge of the World | |
| Author: | Avi (or Edward Irving Wortis) |
| Country: | England |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Avi's Crispin |
| Genre: | Children's, Historical fiction novel |
| Publisher: | Hyperion Books for Children |
| Release Date: | September 2006 |
| Media Type: | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages: | 234 pgs. |
| Isbn: | 0-7868-5152-X |
| Isbn Note: | (first edition, hardback) |
| Congress: | PZ7.A953 Cp 2006 |
| Oclc: | 65400628 |
Crispin: At the Edge of the World is a novel by Edward Irving Wortis (under the pen name Avi), published in 2006. It serves as a sequel to his 2003 Newbery Medal award-winner and is the second book in the Crispin trilogy. Crispin: At The Edge of the World was an ALA notable in 2007.[1]
At the conclusion of the Newbery Award–winning , Bear and Crispin are free to follow new lives. As they travel in search of a new home, Bear is attacked by his old comrades in the Peasant's Revolt and wounded by an arrow. They escape to a woods where they are discovered by an old midwife-healer and a girl named Troth, who nurses Bear back to health. When the old woman is killed, Bear becomes the guardian of both children.
Fearing Bear's pursuers will never give up, they board a ship bound for Flanders. A storm lands them in France instead, where they are captured by English soldiers intent on breaking into a French village church to loot it. The soldiers threaten harm to Bear unless the children do their bidding. A bloody battle ensues, during which Crispin kills a man. The children escape the church and the soldiers with the mortally wounded Bear, who later dies of age and his wounds.