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1) Gladiators
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about gladiators. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2010
Description
One Eye is a chained prisoner forced to fight to the death for the entertainment of his captors. When One Eye escapes, he stumbles upon a group of warriors headed to the Crusades. But fate has something else in store, as the men drift into the New World, where savages stalk them one by one in increasingly violent ways. Is One Eye an avenging angel or just the guiltiest of them all?
4) Gladiators
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Examines the history, culture, training, and fighting styles of Roman gladiators, with information about the few historical details that have survived about specific fighters.
5) The valiant
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Formats
Description
The daughter of a proud Celtic king is captured and sold to a training school for women gladiators under the patronage of Julius Caesar, circumstances that put her survival in the hands of an enemy who was responsible for her sister's death.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Gladiator meets Game of Thrones: a royal woman becomes a skilled warrior to destroy her murderous cousin, avenge her family, and save her kingdom in this first entry in a dazzling fantasy epic from the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Elemental Assassin series--an enthralling tale that combines magic, murder, intrigue, adventure, and a hint of romance. In a realm where one's magical power determines one's worth, Lady Everleigh's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2002, 2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Joe, Fred, and Sam demonstrate some of their favorite professional wrestling moves, including the "Time Warp Trio Blind Ninja Smackdown, " when they're transported to ancient Rome and forced to fight as gladiators in the Colosseum.
10) The Colosseum
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree/Steck
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes the planning and building of the Colosseum in ancient Rome, and tells how it was used.
11) Invictus
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Formats
Description
Farway Gaius McCarthy is the son of a time traveler from 2354 AD and a gladiator living in ancient Rome. His very existence defies the laws of nature. All he's ever wanted was to explore history for himself, but after failing his entrance exam into the government program, Far will have to settle for a position on the black market: captaining a time-traveling crew to steal valuables from the past. During a routine heist on the sinking Titanic, Far...
12) Arena
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
How do you make a fortune from the bloodlust of millions? One sadistically savvy businessman has created an empire with his brutal, fight-to-the-death gladiator website. His newest warrior is David Lord, a kidnapped fireman, now imprisoned and forced to fight for his life. To buy his freedom, Lord agrees to do a series of lethal bouts. But as the body count escalates, and with his most challenging battle remaining, Lord unleashes a torrent of bloody...
13) Gamer
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2010]
Formats
Description
Kable is the superstar and cult hero of the ultraviolent Slayers. Kable is controlled by Simon, a young gamer with rock star status who continues to defy all odds by guiding Kable to victory each week. Taken from his family, imprisoned, and forced to fight against his will, the modern-day gladiator must survive long enough to escape the game, free his family, regain his identity, and save mankind from this ruthless technology.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"A historical novel of one of the most storied uprisings of classic times by an emerging master of the genre. From the author of Pride of Carthage, the superb fictional rendering of Hannibal's epic military campaigns against Carthage's archenemy Rome, comes the perfect follow-up: an equally superb novel of the legendary gladiator Spartacus and the vast slave revolt he led that came ever so close to bringing Rome and its supposedly invincible legions...
15) Gladiator
Series
Formats
Description
A Roman general refuses to transfer his loyalty to the new Emperor, Commodus. He becomes a slave and then a gladiator, fighting in the Roman Colosseum in defiance of the Emperor.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 25
Formats
Description
Book 3 in the 3-book historical Christian fiction series by the New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love and A Voice in the Wind.
The thrilling conclusion to the Mark of the Lion series.
With Hadassah confined to the cells below the arena, facing death once again, and his sister Julia dying of a strange new illness and longing for a forgiveness beyond her reach, Marcus goes in search of God. Meanwhile,...
The thrilling conclusion to the Mark of the Lion series.
With Hadassah confined to the cells below the arena, facing death once again, and his sister Julia dying of a strange new illness and longing for a forgiveness beyond her reach, Marcus goes in search of God. Meanwhile,...
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Gaius Claudius Glaber and his Roman troops are sent to Capua to crush the growing band of freed slaves that Spartacus leads before it can inflict further damage. Spartacus is presented the choice of satisfying his personal need for vengeance against the man who condemned his wife to slavery and eventual death or making the larger sacrifices necessary to keep his budding army from breaking apart.
Author
Series
Roman mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2005, c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Suspecting their friend Jonathan is alive, Flavia, Nubia, and Lupus go to Rome for the Colosseum Games, facing wild beasts, criminals, conspirators, and gladiators, and where Nubia is called upon to make a terrible choice.
Author
Series
Valiant novel volume 2
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Description
When Fallon and her fellow gladiatrices are thrust into a vicious conflict with a rival gladiator academy, the only thing that might save them is a tribe of long-forgotten mythic Amazon warriors.
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