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The chief's daughter The chief's daughter Rosemary Sutcliff [1],87p. : 18cm OL10426029W
Blue remembered hills a recollection Blue remembered hills a recollection Rosemary Sutcliff The well-known author of historical novels for young people describes her childhood and youth and her struggles with the devastating effects of rheumatoid arthritis. OL1417710W
The Eagle of the Ninth. 1400 Grundwörter. The Eagle of the Ninth. 1400 Grundwörter. Rosemary Sutcliff,C. Walter Hodges 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. OL1417723W
The Lantern Bearers The Lantern Bearers Rosemary Sutcliff,R. Sutcliff 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 t… OL1417732W
A little dog like you A little dog like you Rosemary Sutcliff A woman who has lost her beloved small dog to death succeeds in finding him again when he is reborn into the body of a new puppy. OL1417740W
Outcast Outcast Rosemary Sutcliff Fifteen-year-old Beric feels increasingly bitter isolation when, because of his Roman birth, he is cast out by the Celtic tribe that raised him and, after reaching a Roman settlement, he is sold into… OL1417746W
The Shining Company The Shining Company Rosemary Sutcliff 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 again… OL1417752W
The Silver Branch The Silver Branch Charles Keeping,Johanna Ward,Rosemary Sutcliff 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 … OL1417754W
Simon Simon Rosemary Sutcliff It had never seemed of much importance during their boyhood that Simon Carey was for Parliament and his friend Amias Hannaford a Royalist. But when the Civil War between the two parties broke out, an… OL1417755W
Sword song Sword song Rosemary Sutcliff 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 ch… OL1417758W
Blood feud Blood feud Rosemary Sutcliff Sold into slavery to the Northmen in the tenth century, a young Englishman becomes involved in a blood feud which leads him to Constantinople and a totally different way of life. OL1417764W
Knight's fee Knight's fee Rosemary Sutcliff In late eleventh-century England, Randal, a young orphan at Arundel Castle, is won by a minstrel in a chess game and finds his life transformed when he is sent to be companion and squire to the grand… OL1417782W
Frontier wolf Frontier wolf Rosemary Sutcliff A young centurion commanding a unit of Frontier Scouts in Northern Britain during the waning period of Roman control. About AD 343. Livng history book for young people. Rosemary Sutcliff is well know… OL1417793W
Sun horse, moon horse Sun horse, moon horse Rosemary Sutcliff A young boy in pre-Roman England becomes chieftain of his tribe and learns just how much he must sacrifice for his people. OL1417796W
The mark of the Horse Lord The mark of the Horse Lord Rosemary Sutcliff Bearing an uncanny resemblance to the now blind displaced King of the Scots, former gladiator and slave Phaedrus impersonates the Horse Lord to regain from the Picts the control of the Scottish kingd… OL1417799W
Warrior scarlet Warrior scarlet Rosemary Sutcliff In Bronze Age Britain, Drem must overcome the disability of a crippled arm in order to pass his tribe's test of manhood and become a warrior. OL1417802W
The shield ring The shield ring Rosemary Sutcliff A young girl witnesses the waning power of the Norse in their continuing conflict with the Normans in eleventh century England. OL1417805W
The Sword and the Circle The Sword and the Circle Rosemary Sutcliff,Malory, Thomas, Sir 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. OL1417808W
The Wanderings of Odysseus The Wanderings of Odysseus Rosemary Sutcliff A retelling of the adventures of Odysseus on his long voyage home from the Trojan War. OL1417809W
The Kingfisher book of great boy stories The Kingfisher book of great boy stories T. H. White,Carlo Collodi,Mark Twain,Jean Craighead George,Philippa Pearce,Rudyard Kipling,Charles Dickens,Robert Louis Stevenson,J. M. Barrie,Ted Hughes,A. A. Milne,C.S. Lewis,Rosemary Sutcliff,Roald Dahl,Michael Morpurgo,Richmal Crompton,Jeff Brown A collection of excerpts from the works of such authors as A.A. Milne, Carlo Collodi, Ted Hughes, Roald Dahl, C.S. Lewis, Donald Sobol, and Mark Twain. OL15144260W
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