Durham, David Anthony

"In this middle grade solarpunk novel set in an alternate Egyptian universe, twelve-year-old Ash must compete and survive to become the shadow-and protector-of the prince"--.

Presents a historical novel about Hannibal, the legendary military leader of Carthage and his struggle against the superior armies of Rome and traces the origins of the war and Hannibal's choice to follow a land route to Rome.

Gabriel Lynch, an African-American teenager who has moved with his mother from New York to live on his stepfather's Kansas homestead, brings serious trouble down upon himself and his family when he leaves the farm to join a group of cowboys who turn out to be a gang of criminals.

Gabriel Lynch, an African-American teenager who has moved with his mother from New York to live on his stepfather's Kansas homestead, brings serious trouble down upon himself and his family when he leaves the farm to join a group of cowboys who turn out to be a gang of criminals.

A few years have passed since the conquering of the Mein, and Queen Corinn is firmly in control of the Known World-perhaps too firmly. With plans to expand her empire, she sends her brother, Daniel, on an exploratory mission to the Other Lands. There Daniel discovers a lush, exotic mainland ruled by an alliance of tribes that poses a grave danger to the stability of the Known World. Is Queen Corinn strong enough to face this new challenge? Readers of this bold, imaginative sequel will not be disappointed in the answer.

Widower Leodan Akaran, ruler of the Known World, has hidden from his four children the fact that the peace and prosperity enjoyed by Acacia is built on traffic in drugs and human lives, so when he is stricken by a deadly assassin and the empire attacked, he sets in motion a plan devised to allow his children to escape--each to find his or her own destiny.

Widower Leodan Akaran, ruler of the Known World, has hidden from his four children the fact that the peace and prosperity enjoyed by Acacia is built on traffic in drugs and human lives, so when he is stricken by a deadly assassin and the empire attacked, he sets in motion a plan devised to allow his children to escape--each to find his or her own destiny.