The lantern bearers / Rosemary Sutcliff.
Material type: TextSeries: The Roman Britain trilogy ; bk. 3.Publisher: New York : Square Fish/Farrar Straus Giroux, 2010Edition: First Square Fish editionDescription: 219 pages : map ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780312644307
- 0312644302
- Carnegie Medal, 1959.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Fiction | SUTCLIFF ROSEMARY | R3 | Available | 33111010594287 | ||||
Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Fiction | SUTCLIFF ROSEMARY | R3 | Available | 33111010577639 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Rosemary Sutcliff's The Lantern Bearers is the winner of the 1959 Carnegie Medal in Literature.
The last of the Roman army have set sail and left Britain forever, abandoning it to civil war and the threat of a Saxon invasion. Aquila, a young Legionnaire, deserted his regiment to stay behind with his family, but his home and all that he loves are destroyed. Years of hardship and fighting follow, and in the end, there is only one thing left in Aquila's life--his thirst for revenge . . .
"First published in Great Britain by Oxford University Press, 1959"--Title page verso.
Lexile: 1210L.
Includes discussion questions.
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 to fight against the Saxon hordes.
Carnegie Medal, 1959.