An American Library Association Notable Book and his first book for children, Erik Christian Haugaard’s Hakon of Rogen’s Saga is a remarkable novel that perfectly catches the mood of a harsh but heroic people. Set at the end of the Viking period, it tells of a young boy, Hakon, from the island of Rogen who, after his chieftain father is murdered, undertakes to reclaim his birthright from his treacherous uncle. The illustrations by renowned artists Leo and Diane Dillon make this captivating story come alive.
A Slave’s Tale, the sequel to Hakon of Rogen’s Saga, is told from the point of view of a slave girl, Helga, who stows away on the longship when Hakon, the young Viking chieftain, sets sail for France on a voyage to return Rark, a freed slave, to his homeland. The voyagers’ journey is perilous—they narrowly escape capture by an invading fleet, and their ship is severely damaged by a storm. Upon reaching France—where the Vikings are now hated, not feared—only tragedy ensues.
Having grown up as an orphan of the streets while sixteenth-century Japan is being ravaged by civil war, Saru seeks to help a samurai rescue his wife from imprisonment by a warlord so they can all flee to a more peaceful life.
When the powerful Lord Takeda's soldiers sweep across the countryside, killing and plundering, they spare the boy Taro's life and take him along with them. Taro becomes a servant in the household of the noble Lord Akiyama, where he meets Togan, a cook, who teaches Taro and makes his new life bearable. But when Togan is murdered, Taro's life takes a new direction: He will become a samurai, and redeem the family legacy that has been stolen from him.
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Patrick defies his unloving grandfather, a smuggler of the Irish island of Valentia, by warning John Paul Jones of the American fleet about an English ambush.
In turbulent sixteenth-century Japan, orphaned Taro is taken in by a general who is serving the great warlord Takeda Shingen. Taro grows up to become a samurai fighting for the enemies of his dead family.
Faced with increasingly harsh winters and deteriorating morale in fifteenth-century Greenland, a young man struggles to rally the last few surviving Norse colonists, who feel their only hope is rescue by ships from Norway.
Involved in the tragedy of the fall of ancient Jerusalem, a young boy, one of the seven survivors of Masada, tells the story of cruelty, disillusionment, and courage.
A high-school senior searches for the murderer of an iconoclastic teacher whom he idolized for his intellectual integrity, but who was seen as a threat to the community.
A retelling of Homer's Odyssey in which Odysseus is transformed into Yuriwaka, the strongest man in Japan, who commands the Emperor's ships battling the pirates of Shiragi.
Having grown up as an orphan of the streets while sixteenth-century Japan is being ravaged by civil war, Saru seeks to help a samurai rescue his wife from imprisonment by a warlord so they can all flee to a more peaceful life.
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