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1) Eternal
Author
Language
English
Description
"Elisabetta, Marco, and Sandro grow up as the best of friends despite their differences. Elisabetta is a feisty beauty who dreams of becoming a novelist; Marco the brash and athletic son in a family of professional cyclists; and Sandro a Jewish mathematics prodigy, kind-hearted and thoughtful, the son of a lawyer and a doctor. Their friendship blossoms to love, with both Sandro and Marco hoping to win Elisabetta's heart. But in the autumn of 1937,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Description
A man's life can change in an instant. For Ben-Hur, a young Jewish aristocrat, that time comes when he accidentally knocks a roof tile onto a Roman official's head. He is condemned to the galleys, but the most fateful moment of his life is yet to come: the day he meets Jesus.
3) Ben-Hur
Author
Series
Classics illustrated volume no. 27
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
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Description
Judah Ben-Hur lives as a rich Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem at the beginning of the 1st century. His old friend Messala arrives as commanding officer of the Roman legions. They become bitter enemies. Because of an unfortunate accident, Ben-Hur is sent to slave in the mines while his family is sent to leprosy caves. As Messala is dying from being crushed in a chariot race, he reveals where Ben-Hur's family is. On the road to find them, Ben-Hur...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the autumn of 1948, Iris Digby vanishes from her London home with her American diplomat husband and their two children. The world is shocked by the family’s sensational disappearance. Were they eliminated by the Soviet intelligence service? Or have the Digbys defected to Moscow with a trove of the West’s most vital secrets? Four years later, Ruth Macallister receives a postcard from the twin sister she hasn’t seen since their catastrophic...
Author
Series
I survived volume 10
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"During the infamous eruption of Mount Vesuvius, one boy struggles to escape. Can he survive the most devastating disaster of ancient times? In this thrilling addition to the bestselling I SURVIVED series, readers are taken back to antiquity with a young boy trying to escape as the giant Mount Vesuvius erupts. Does he have what it takes to survive the epic destruction of Pompeii?" -- summary from amazon.com.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Will the Greek god Apollo, cast down to Earth in the pathetic mortal form of a teenager named Lester Papadopoulos, finally regain his place on Mount Olympus? Lester's demigod friends at Camp Jupiter just helped him survive attacks from bloodthirsty ghouls, an evil Roman king and his army of the undead, and the lethal emperors Caligula and Commodus. Now the former god and his demigod master Meg must follow a prophecy uncovered by Ella the harpy. Lester's...
Author
Series
Mark of the thief trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Nic, a slave in the mines outside of Rome, is forced to enter a sealed cavern containing lost treasures of Julius Caesar, he finds himself in possession of an ancient amulet filled with magic once reserved for the Gods, and becomes the center of a conspiracy to overthrow the emperor and destroy Rome.
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 2
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Ranger is a golden retriever who has been trained as a search-and-rescue dog. In this adventure, he travels to the Colosseum in ancient Rome, where there are gladiator fights and wild animal hunts! Ranger befriends Marcus, a young boy Ranger saves from a runaway lion, and Quintus, a new gladiator who must prove himself in the arena. Can Ranger help Marcus and Quintus escape the brutal world of the Colosseum?
10) The Grass Crown
Author
Series
Masters of Rome volume 2
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
As the Roman Empire declines Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla vie for political dominance.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
A prosperous trader, Marcus Lucianus Valerian has made a fortune providing sand and slaves for the Roman games. But when Hadassah, a slave in his family's household, has enchanted him with her quiet beauty and her staunch faith in Christ. when Marcus' sister sends Hadassah to almost certain death at the games, Marcus feels that his life has been ripped apart. Now he is on his way to Jerusalem to find out more about Hadassah's god, unaware that a miracle...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Formats
Description
The holy city of Jerusalem has fallen. By the mercy of God, Hadassah, a young Christian girl survives famine, the deaths of her entire family, and unspeakable atrocities. And in Germania, a heroic young chieftain named Atretes battles the Romans with unmatched fury. It is prophesied that Atretes will drive the Romans from his lands, and someday meet a dark complexioned woman from an exotic land whom he will come to love.
13) Rise of the wolf
Author
Series
Mark of the thief trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now a driver in the chariot races, Nic is still a target of the Praetors because of the magical amulet he found, and they will do anything to get their hands on it--and meanwhile Atroxia is beginning to wake up.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 31
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie back in time to meet famed Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius!"--
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Language
English
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Description
"Whispered secrets about her parents' past take on new urgency for Chariline as she pays one last visit to the land of her forefathers, the ancient kingdom of Cush. Raised as an orphan by her aunt, Chariline has only been told a few pieces of her parents' tragic love story. Her beautiful dark skin is proof that her father was Cushite, but she knows nothing else. While visiting her grandfather before his retirement as the Roman official in the queen's...
Author
Series
Mark of the lion volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this final installment of the trilogy, the Germanic warrior Atretes vows to move heaven and earth to find his son -- the baby he thought was dead --and take him back to Germania. Only one thing stands in his way: Rizaph, a Christian widow who has cared for the child since his birth. Atretes hadn't counted on Rizaph's fiery resistance to "her son" being taken away, nor is he prepared for the woman's strength and beauty. The two are caught in a...
17) Mistress of Rome
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Beautiful and musical Judaean slave Thea attempts to survive and prosper in first century Rome despite a spiteful mistress, a broken love affair with a gladiator, and, most dangerous of all, an interested Emperor.
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A young centurion ventures among the hostile tribes beyond the Roman Wall to recover the eagle standard of the Ninth, a legion which mysteriously disappeared under his father's command.
19) A pillar of iron
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1965
Language
English
Description
A novel about Cicero and the Rome he tried to save.
Author
Series
Masters of Rome volume 1
Publisher
Morrow
Language
English
Description
On New Year's Day of 110 B.C., two men whom "Fortune" favors stand with a vision and courage that will force change upon the Roman Empire.