Michael Ford
Author
Series
Spartan quest volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When slaves rebel in ancient Sparta, twelve-year-old Lysander, guarded by an heirloom amulet, the Fire of Ares, is caught between the Spartan ruling class, with whom he has been training as a warrior since his noble heritage was revealed, and those among whom he was recently laboring as a slave.
Author
Series
Spartan quest volume 2
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When Persians invade Sparta while thirteen-year-old Lysander is training to be a soldier, he finds his loyalties are divided between Spartan honor and the Helot slaves with whom he lived most of his life.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011], c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
As the widowed master of an elegant house in Victorian-era London slips slowly into madness and his tyrannical housekeeper takes on more power, a ghostly presence distracts a teenaged maidservant with clues to a deadly secret.
Author
Series
Spartan quest volume 3
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
When Lysander and his barracks are sent to Taras, Italy, to protect a vital trading post threatened by a local uprising, he spies a statue of a figure wearing the Fire of Ares and sets out to discover his connection to the city, hoping to learn more of his mysterious heritage.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Shakespeare's immortal drama is retold here in a graphic novel format. Julius Caesar, emperor of Rome, is brutally assassinated, but soon the conspirators Brutus, Marc Antony, and Cassius turn against one another to spark a civil war.