- Juvenile fiction, Newbery Medal, Fiction, Historical fiction
After witnessing his father's crucifixion by Roman soldiers, Daniel bar Jamin is fired by a single passion: to avenge his father's death by driving the Roman legions from the land of Israel.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and overwhelming.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Elizabeth George Speare
- First published
- 1961
- Pages
- 255
- Publisher
- William A. Thomas Braille Bookstore, Perfection Learning Prebound, Houghton Mifflin
- Editions
- 31
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9780745947051
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First sentence
“A BOY STOOD on the path of the mountain overlooking the sea.”
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