Crispin: The Cross of Lead

"I kept asking myself if I felt different, if I was different. The answer was always yes. I was no longer nothing How odd, I thought: it had taken my mother's death, Father Quinel's murder, and the desire of others to kill me for me to claim a life of my own."

Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.