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The 1929 Newbery winner, this novel is set in Poland, 1461. Joseph Charnetski, a fifteen-year-old, travels with his family to Krakow after their home and fields in the Ukraine were destroyed. The family befriends a wise scholar and goes to live in the house of an alchemist and his daughter. Joseph becomes a watchman in the Church of Our Lady Mary. In the tower there, he plays on the hour the Heynal, a theme that is traditionally broken off in mid-note out of respect for a brave Polish lad who was killed by an arrow while playing it as Tartars advanced. The family is shadowed and accosted several times by a mysterious rogue, who turns out to be a dreaded Ukranian warlord who originally drove them from their home and is out to steal a priceless treasure which, to Joseph’s surprise, his father is guarding for the king.

《长青藤国际大奖小说书系：吹号手的诺言》讲述的是一个关于珍宝、忠心和诺言的传奇故事，也是两个生活在不同世纪的吹号手的动人故事。在波兰的克拉科夫城，有一位忠诚的吹号手在13世纪被敌人射死。两个世纪之后，男孩约瑟一家来到了这座城市，寄居在一位炼金术士的楼下，约瑟的父亲获得了吹号手的职位。约瑟深深地爱上了这座古老而美丽的城市，他并不知道自己一家由于一件不断引起纷争的珍宝——塔尔努夫大水晶球，而被卷进了一场邪恶的阴谋里，陷入与凶残的鞑靼大盗、炼金术士、催眠术士以及魔鬼的黑暗使者的争斗中。一旦水晶球被抢走，灾难必会再次降临。千钧一发之际，约瑟吹响的号声将会由谁来响应？这个藏有邪恶力量的水晶球最终又将何去何从？勇敢的小约瑟遵照自己对古老誓言的承诺，决定无论付出多大的代价，都要保护这件稀世珍宝！这个饱含正能量的故事具有极大的感染力。