12 Best young adult books like Beyond the Desert Gate (Roman Empire Sequence, #4) by Mary Ray

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Beyond the Desert Gate (Roman Empire Sequence, #4)

By: Mary Ray

4.31

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Sequel to The Ides of April. Palestine in the first century A.D. is as disturbed and divided as it …

If you liked the young adult plot in Beyond the Desert Gate (Roman Empire Sequence, #4) by Mary Ray , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. The Great and Terrible Quest

By: Margaret Lovett

3.97

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Set in the late Middle Ages, a quick-witted orphan, abused by his grandfather, risks his life to ca… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Lovett's The Great and Terrible Quest book and Mary Ray's Beyond the Desert Gate (Roman Empire Sequence, #4)

  • childrens
  • school
  • adventure
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Silver hidden in the gold, Young man hidden in the old, Laughing lord with weeping eyes, Bring king and ring before sunrise! -Hilarion, The Great and Terrible Quest"

-Margaret Lovett, The Great and Terrible Quest

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2. The Silver Branch

By: Rosemary Sutcliff , Charles Keeping

3.93

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Intrigue, plotting, and battles in the second of Rosemary Sutcliff's best-selling trilogy which beg… read more

Similar categories in Rosemary Sutcliff's The Silver Branch book and Mary Ray's Beyond the Desert Gate (Roman Empire Sequence, #4)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Does one refuse to ride with an Emperor?' 'If one is wise, one does not."

-Rosemary Sutcliff, The Silver Branch

"I simply--don't know," Flavius said, and then suddenly explosive: "I don't know and I don't care! Go to bed."

-Rosemary Sutcliff, The Silver Branch

"The young Centurion, who had been completely still throughout, said very softly, as though to himself, "Greater love hath no man--" and Justin thought it sounded as though he were quoting someone els…"

-Rosemary Sutcliff, The Silver Branch

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3. Flame Over Tara

By: Madeleine A. Polland , Omar Davis , Madeleine Polland

3.66

Format: 320 pages,

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Similar categories in Madeleine A. Polland's Flame Over Tara book and Mary Ray's Beyond the Desert Gate (Roman Empire Sequence, #4)

  • young adult
  • childrens
  • school
  • historical fiction
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4. Beyond the Desert Gate (Roman Empire Sequence, #4)

By: Mary Ray

4.31

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Sequel to The Ides of April. Palestine in the first century A.D. is as disturbed and divided as it … read more

Similar categories in Mary Ray's Beyond the Desert Gate (Roman Empire Sequence, #4) book and Mary Ray's Beyond the Desert Gate (Roman Empire Sequence, #4)

  • childrens
  • school
  • adventure
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. The Bronze Bow

By: Elizabeth George Speare

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. –from the Song of David (2 Sa… read more

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  • childrens
  • school
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"the demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out."

-Elizabeth George Speare, The Bronze Bow

"It is the hate that is the enemy. Not men. Hate does not die with killing. It only springs up a hundredfold. The only thing stronger than hate is love."

-Elizabeth George Speare, The Bronze Bow

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6. The Door in the Wall

By: Marguerite de Angeli

4.88

Format: 242 pages,

The bells clang above plague-ridden London as Robin lies helpless, cold, and hungry. The great hous… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. The Hidden Treasure of Glaston

By: Eleanore Myers Jewett

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

Amidst great mystery, Hugh is left in the care of Glastonbury Abbey by his father who must flee to … read more

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  • adventure
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends, #1) by Garth Williams, George Selden

8. The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends, #1)

By: Garth Williams , George Selden

4.04

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

One night, the sounds of New York City--the rumbling of subway trains, thrumming of automobile tire… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • childrens
  • school
"Harry had been down to Washington Square to hear an open-air concert of chamber music. How you could play chamber music outdoors Chester didn't understand—but it was New York and anything could happe…"

-Garth Williams, The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends, #1)

"I guess I'm just feeling Septemberish," sighed Chester. "It's getting towards autumn now. And it's so pretty up in Connecticut. All the trees change color. The days get very clear―with a little smoke…"

-Garth Williams, The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends, #1)

"Just this once, in the very heart of the busiest of cities, everyone was perfectly content not to move and hardly to breathe. And for those few minutes, while the song lasted, Times Square was still …"

-Garth Williams, The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends, #1)

"Chester's playing filled the station. Like ripples around a stone dropped into still water, the circles of silence spread out from the newsstand. And as people listened, a change came over their face…"

-Garth Williams, The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends, #1)

9. The Shakespeare Stealer (Shakespeare Stealer, #1)

By: Gary L. Blackwood

3.74

Format: None pages, Paperback

Widge is an orphan with a rare talent for shorthand. His fearsome master has just one demand: steal… read more

Similar categories in Gary L. Blackwood's The Shakespeare Stealer (Shakespeare Stealer, #1) book and Mary Ray's Beyond the Desert Gate (Roman Empire Sequence, #4)

  • childrens
  • school
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of God King: A Story in the Days of King Hezekiah by Joanne Williamson, Daria M. Sockey

10. God King: A Story in the Days of King Hezekiah

By: Joanne Williamson , Daria M. Sockey

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

A never-before published tale by the author of the best -selling Hittite Warrior, carries the reade… read more

Similar categories in Joanne Williamson's God King: A Story in the Days of King Hezekiah book and Mary Ray's Beyond the Desert Gate (Roman Empire Sequence, #4)

  • childrens
  • school
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

11. A Single Shard

By: Linda Sue Park

3.85

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Tree-ear, an orphan, lives under a bridge in Ch'ulp'o, a potters' village famed for delicate celado… read more

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12. Ancient Times: From the Earliest Nomads to the Last Roman Emperor (The Story of the World #1)

By: Susan Wise Bauer , Jeff West

3.93

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

What terrible secret was buried in Shi Huangdi's tomb? Did nomads like lizard stew? What happened t… read more

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13. The Trojan War

By: Olivia E. Coolidge

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this retelling of the Trojan War, Olivia Coolidge crafts heroes and gods into real, multidimensi… read more

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14. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

By: Jean Lee Latham

5.00

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to … read more

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15. The Second Mrs. Gioconda

By: E.L. Konigsburg

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

THE GREATEST ARTIST OF HIS TIME AN APPRENTICE WITH A LARCENOUS HEART AND AN AVERSION TO THE TRUTH A… read more

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16. Mystery of the Roman Ransom

By: Henry Winterfeld , None , None

3.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

In these two delightful history-mysteries, seven boys in Ancient Rome solve strange crimes . . . th… read more

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17. Master Cornhill

By: Eloise Jarvis McGraw

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

Victim of both the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London, a homeless, penniless eleven-year-old… read more

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18. The Golden Goblet

By: Eloise Jarvis McGraw

3.82

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Ranofer struggles to thwart the plottings of his evil brother, Gebu, so he can become master goldsm… read more

Similar categories in Eloise Jarvis McGraw's The Golden Goblet book and Mary Ray's Beyond the Desert Gate (Roman Empire Sequence, #4)

  • childrens
  • school
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

19. Johnny Tremain

By: Lynd Ward , Esther Forbes

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Johnny Tremain, a young apprentice silversmith, is caught up in the danger and excitement of 1775 B… read more

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20. Toliver's Secret

By: Esther Wood Brady

3.99

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

When her grandfather is injured, 10-year-old Ellen Toliver replaces him on a top-secret patriotic m… read more

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  • childrens
  • school
  • adventure
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. The Sign of the Beaver

By: Elizabeth George Speare

3.87

Format: 148 pages, Kindle Edition

Twelve-year-old Matt is left on his own in the Maine wilderness while his father leaves to bring th… read more

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  • childrens
  • school
  • adventure
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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