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
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
[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
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.