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Author
Language
English
Description
The Year 1000 is a vivid and surprising portrait of life in England a thousand years ago - a world that already knew brain surgeons and property developers and, yes, even the occasional gossip columnist. Uncovering such wonderfully unexpected details, authors Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger bring this distant world closer than it has ever been before. How did people survive without sugar? How did monks communicate if they were not allowed to speak?...
Author
Series
Warlord chronicles volume 1
Language
English
Description
A novel on King Arthur, the legendary 6th Century hero, as he battles the Anglo-Saxons in defense of the Celts. Off the battlefield his sidekick, the magician Merlin, does his best to save Druid gods from invading Christianity.
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
"Michael Wood examines the roots of English history. Peeling back the layers of literary and oral material that have accumulated over the ages, he offers a fascinating series of rich stories - part history, part myth - that, directly or indirectly, touch on questions of English history and identity. He looks back at the legends surrounding Alfred the Great, King Athelstan, the lost library of Glastonbury, and more."--BOOK JACKET.
Author
Series
Warlord chronicles volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A Saxon slave boy who rose to become one of King Arthur's lieutenants describes the campaign against the Saxons and the Christians. Arthur wants to unify Britain, but the Christians refuse his rule, considering him a pagan enemy of God.
Author
Series
Warlord chronicles volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
The embattled King Arthur faces rebellion by anti-Christian pagans as he fights the invading Saxons. The rebels demand a return to the worship of Druid gods, claiming only they can save Britain. Final volume in a trilogy.
Author
Series
Sea of Trolls trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll queen, leading Jack to undertake a vital quest to Jotunheim, home of the trolls.
8) After Rome
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After more than four hundred years of Roman rule, the island its conquerors called Britannia was abandoned-left to its own devices as the Roman empire contracted in a futile effort to defend itself from the barbarian hordes encroaching upon its heart. As Britannia falls into anarchy and the city of Viroconium is left undefended, two cousins who remained behind when the imperial forces withdrew pursue very different courses in the ensuing struggle...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Merlinnus the magician devises a way for King Arthur to prove himself the rightful king of England - pulling a sword from a stone - but trouble arises when someone else removes the sword first.
Author
Series
Circle of Ceridwen saga volume 2
Publisher
Pyewacket Press
Pub. Date
♭2001
Language
English
Description
"Ninth-century Saxon England crumbles under the onslaught of a relentless foe - the Danish Vikings. Ceridwen, a young woman with divided loyalties, watches as the peace and plenty she enjoys at the Saxon stronghold of Kilton gives way to wary watchfulness. Her dearest friend, ¡lfwyn, sold in marriage to a Dane in a desperate bid for peace, travels to Kilton and recounts the events that befell the fortress of Four Stones in captured Lindisse. But...
Author
Series
The knights' tales volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Relates the adventures of Sir Gawain, the only undefeated knight in King Arthur's court, who eventually learns the value of friendship, courtliness, and courtesy after a challenge from the Green Knight.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Two eleven-year-olds named Edmund and Elspeth discover that they have been given fantastic gifts to use against the ancient and evil forces that have been awakened by powerful magic during the Dark Ages in Great Britain.
15) Sword song
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
At sixteen, Bjarni is cast out of the Norse settlement in the Angles' Land for an act of oath-breaking and spends five years sailing the west coast of Scotland and witnessing the feuds of the clan chiefs living there.
16) King Arthur
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Surveys the known history of King Arthur, the legends and lore surrounding him, his treatment in literature, and the possible historical background of his associates and stories.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Yearning for adventure, the young Knights of the Round Table are drawn to Orkney, Scotland, where they face a kraken and other monsters, including Queen Margause and her son, Mordred.
18) Arthur
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
An enchanting tale of love and loss, glory and grandeur, set in the twilight of Rome's power...where the Celtic chieftains of Britain battle to save their land from an onrushing darkness...In this modern classic, Stephen Lawhead presents a majestic retelling of Western literature's most compelling epic. The Sword of Britain. While many strove to claim it, one hand alone could remove the blade of Kingship from its stone sheath. He came - a raw youth...
Author
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Acting as the "son" her father never had, Gwenhwyfar, when called upon to serve another purpose by the Ladies of the Well, bows to circumstances to become Arthur's queen--only to find herself facing temptation and treachery, intrigue and betrayal, but also love and redemption.
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