Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!

Schlitz, L. (2007). Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! MA: Candlewick Press

Medieval characters living in a village express their experiences and adventures through poetry. Each character affecting each other in some way. Will the plowboy experiences the actions of his father when his father kills a hare and are forced to be silent about it because it was considered against the law to kill animals in the land of their lord. Alice the shepherdess experiences the loss of her mother, but was raised by the sheep and because of this, she helps her good friend the sheep named Jilly when she is in the brink of death. Finally, the Giles the beggar helps his father deceive the town people. He acts like he is crippled and then miraculously gets healed.