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Very interesting story set in 1313 France, about a teen boy, Grimpow, raised by a thief, who finds a magical stone and sets out on a journey of a lifetime to uncover long hidden secrets of the Knights of the Templars. He meets an Italian knight and becomes his squire, helping him in a tournament, and travels all over France solving puzzles and finding clues to this "secret of the wise." I thought that the clues and puzzles were a little overexplained sometimes, just to make sure you really got it, but overall it was a really clever mystery and a neat tour of medieval France. Very little fantasy, just the mysterious stone that let Grimpow suddenly know how to read not only French but Latin and Greek and other languages too! And it has other magical properties that are discovered along the way.