kings and rulers

In ninth-century Britain, fifteen-year-old Aethelflaed, daughter of King Alfred of West Saxony, finds she must assume new responsibilities much sooner than expected when she is betrothed to Ethelred of Mercia in order to strengthen a strategic alliance against the Danes.

Describes the life, battle campaigns, influence on the ancient world, and mythological status of the champion of the Greeks who marched his armies as far as India.

Contains twenty articles that provide accounts of political leaders and events that changed the course of world history,from Asoka, the Buddhist emperor c. 250 B.C., to Mikhail Gorbachev's destruction of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

Describes life in ancient Rome and the succession of emperors, from Pompey to Justinian, who ruled this empire.

Discusses the life and military accomplishments of the Macedonian hero and leader.

A biography of the military genius who crowned himself Emperor of the French and whose empire covered most of western and central Europe.

A biography of Tutankhamun, Pharaoh of Egypt, including information on his burial and the discovery of his tomb.

Princess Celie loves Tuesdays at Castle Glower, because every Tuesday the castle adds a new room, a turret, or sometimes a whole new wing, and Celie likes to map the changes to the castle, but when her parents, King and Queen Glower are taken captive, it falls to Celie and her knowledge of the castle to defend their home and save the kingdom.

Fourteen-year-old Petra, her tin spider Astrophil, and their friends become entangled in the competition for the Roma crown and set out for Prague in hopes of finally finding a cure for Petra's father.

Sensei Ki-yaga leads Niya and the other students of the Cockroach Ryu on a journey to beg the feudal Emperor to stop war from breaking out between the mountain ryus, putting to the test the firm friendship and unusual skills of these physically-disabled samurai-in-training.