Author: Kathy Allen
ISBN: 9781429639583
Publisher: Capstone Press, 2010
Ages: 9-12
Grade level: 4-8
Genre: Non-fiction
Summary: In this book you learn all about the disgusting facts of medieval life including all the diseases, poor hygiene, bad teeth, horrible food, drafty castles, never ending work, and the crazy doctors that knew next to nothing about actual medicine.
Read A-likes: The Dreadful, Smelly Colonies; The Foul, Filthy American Frontier; and The Terrible, Awful Civil War.
Personal Thoughts: This book is perfect for boys who cannot get enough of the truly gross things in history. This book was fascinating even to an adult because it touches on all those questions that people have when they read fiction that romanticizes the Middle-Ages and medieval times.
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