The Shining Company

By Rosemary Sutcliff

Subjects: Donna Harsh Collection, England, fiction, Open Library Staff Picks, Friendship, fiction, Cattraeth, Battle of, Catterick, England, ca. 600, Historical fiction, English author, Fiction, Great britain, fiction, Children's fiction, Historical, Juvenile fiction, History, Cattraeth, Battle of, ca. 600

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.