The King's Fifth
Conquerors
Mexico, fiction
Newbery Honor
Discoveries in geography
Discovery and exploration
Children's fiction
Juvenile fiction
Juvenile literature
History
Fiction
The King's Fifth (1966) is a children's historical novel by Scott O'Dell that was the inspiration for the cartoon TV series The Mysterious Cities of Gold. It describes, from the point of view of a teenage Spanish Conquistador, how the European search for gold in the New World of the Americas affecte…
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