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Author:

Sutcliff, Rosemary.

Title:

The eagle of the Ninth / Rosemary Sutcliff.

Edition:

First Square Fish ed.

Publisher:

Square Fish / Farrar Strauss Giroux

Copyright Date:

2010, c1954

Description:

210 p. : map ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Fathers and sons--Juvenile fiction.
Soldiers--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D.--Juvenile fiction.
Rome--Army--Juvenile fiction.
Historical fiction.
Suspense fiction.

Notes:

"An ALA (American Library Association) notable book." "First published in Great Britain by Oxford University Press, 1954"--T.p. verso. Includes discussion questions an an excerpt from "The silver branch," the next book in the trilogy.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0312644299
9780312644291 (pbk.)

LCCN:

bl2010030306

Locations:

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

DZPB423 -- Hubbard Public Library (Hubbard)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

UBPC631 -- Webb Shadle Public Library (Pleasantville)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

YFPC572 -- Springville Memorial Library (Springville)