Outcast / Rosemary Sutcliff ; pictures by Richard Kennedy.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, ©1995.Edition: First Sunburst editionDescription: 229 pages : illustrations ; 19 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0374456739
- 9780374456733
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Fiction | SUTCLIFF ROSEMARY | Available | 33111010476311 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From author Rosemary Sutcliff, author of the classic tale The Eagle of the Ninth, comes Outcast , the tale of an orphan boy in the ancient world.
When a Roman ship is wrecked off the coast of Britain, an infant, Beric, is the only survivor, saved by members of a British tribe. They name him Beric and bring him up among them, until the time comes when they can ignore his ancestry no longer. Then Beric is cast out from the only home he has ever known and forced to find his one place in a treacherous world.
With illustrations by Richard Kennedy, Outcast is sure to delight middle grade lovers of historical adventure.
"Rosemary Sutcliff's superb historical imagination never fails." -- The New York Herald Tribune
"First published in Great Britain by Oxford University Press"--Title page verso.
"A Sunburst book."
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 slavery and sentenced to serve in a galley for the rest of his life.
Storm on the coast -- Pack law -- The outcast -- The men from the sea -- The arm-ring -- A friend and an enemy -- The dark days -- Breaking-point -- Escape! -- The farm in the hills -- The Alcestis of the Rhenus Fleet -- Storm at sea -- Jason's Island -- The house above the mist -- The builder of roads and drainer of marshes -- Another stray -- The wind rises -- The great storm.