Rosemary Sutcliff
Author
Series
Roman Britain trilogy volume 3
Lexile measure
1140L
Language
English
Description
Instead of leaving with the last of the Roman legions, Aquila, a young officer, decides that his loyalties lie with Britain, and he eventually joins the forces of the Roman-British leader Ambrosius to fight against the Saxon hordes.
4) Beowulf
Author
Publisher
E.P. Dutton
Pub. Date
1962, [1961]
Language
English
Description
The Anglo-Saxon epic of Beowulf retold for young readers.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Description
In 600 A.D. in northern Britain, Prosper becomes a shield bearer with the Companions, an army made up of three hundred younger sons of minor kings and trained to act as one fighting brotherhood against the invading Saxons.
8) Sword song
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1240L
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.
Author
Publisher
E.P. Dutton
Pub. Date
1982.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Description
The evil Mordred, plotting against his father King Arthur, implicates the Queen and Sir Lancelot in treachery and brings about the downfall of Camelot and the Round Table.
Author
Series
Arthurian trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1981]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the adventures and exploits of King Arthur and his knights at the court of Camelot and elsewhere in the land of the Britons.
Author
Series
Roman Britain trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1993.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
1110L
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.
Author
Series
Roman Britain trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Description
A young Roman army medical officer, sent to Britain during the period of waning Roman rule, befriends a kinsman with whom he shares an adventure of intrigue, exile, and underground activity with the Lost Ninth Legion.
16) The shield ring
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A young girl witnesses the waning power of the Norse in their continuing conflict with the Normans in eleventh century England.
20) The Eagle
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after the disappearance of his father and the Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, young centurion Marcus Aquila travels from Rome to solve the mystery, retrieve the lost legion's golden emblem, and restore his father's honor.