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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Patroclus, an awkward young prince, follows Achilles into war, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they have learned, everything they hold dear. And that, before he is ready, he will be forced to surrender his friend to the hands of Fate. Set during the Trojan War.
2) The Hittite
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Returning home from a long, brutal campaign against the Armenian army, the Hittite soldier Lukka finds the once magnificent Hatti empire in chaos, its capital city Hattusa engulfed in fire and terrorized by marauding gangs. His wife and young sons have been taken by slave traders.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A gorgeous retelling of the Trojan War from the perspectives of the many women involved in its causes and consequences—for fans of Madeline Miller.
This is the women’s war, just as much as it is the men’s. They have waited long enough for their turn ...
This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of them all ...
In the middle of the night, a woman wakes to find her beloved city engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years...
Author
Series
Vesper Holly volume 6
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Vesper Holly's adventures continue as she, her guardians, and their friends journey to Asia Minor in search of the ancient city of Troy, but fall into the trap of an old nemesis.
11) Troy
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Told from the point of view of the women of Troy, portrays the last weeks of the Trojan War, when women are sick of tending the wounded, men are tired of fighting, and bored gods and goddesses find ways to stir things up.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy comes a monumental new masterpiece, set in the midst of literature's most famous war. Pat Barker turns her attention to the timeless legend of The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of the Trojan War. The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek army, who continue to wage bloody war over a stolen...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with the spoils of an endless war--including the women of Troy themselves. They await a fair wind for the Aegean; it does not come, because the gods are offended. The body of King Priam lies unburied and desecrated, and so the victors remain in suspension, camped in the shadows of the city they destroyed as the coalition that held them together begins to unravel. Old feuds resurface...
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