I read Tudors and traitors there are four different story’s in this book it is a very good book it is about a nice girl called Ellie Who goes to work in a castle. The people there are not very nice and she hated working there. Also working at the castle was a boy called Lambert, he lied about who he really was. One night the guards came to get the kings daughter Ellie and take her to her father. The king wants her to spy on people in the castle. Ellie told him about Lambert and promised to find out the truth about him. The following day she found out that the cook cooked himself a feast, she rushed to tell the king.
The next story was about a man and his son James who wanted money. The man pretends to kill James by stabbing him but James was protected by a plank of wood. Which the dagger went into. He removed the plank when he as in the coffin and his mum pretended to save him by retiring a spell in a strange Egyptian language. James opened the coffin lid and jumped out the coffin. His dad held his hat out and every one emptied there pockets. A woman from the crowd with wild hair looked in the coffin and found the plank with the dagger in it she told the crowd that it was all a trick. Suddenly the crowed snatched the fathers hat witch held all the money and he was smacked by the end of a sword. James was kicked by a dirty boot and james mums purse was taken. The family all hid. a man stepped out of the shadow of the doorway. He intoduced himself as a jester and took james family to the castle so they could show king henry how the trick was done. The king loved it and the crowd all got up and cheered. King henry challenged james father to a game of cards and king henry lost, several times. Name whispered to his father that he should let the king win because he hates to lose so he did. James father lost everything but james grabbed some gold no one saw they set off around the county. They used the gold to buy a carriage.
