16 must-read historical books like The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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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…

If you liked the historical plot in The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of The Golden Bull by Marjorie Cowley

1. The Golden Bull

By: Marjorie Cowley

3.47

Format: 206 pages, Hardcover

A brother and sister's search for a new life and new home . . .5,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotam… read more

Similar categories in Marjorie Cowley's The Golden Bull book and Eloise Jarvis McGraw's The Golden Goblet

  • childrens
  • school
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Treviño

2. I, Juan de Pareja

By: Elizabeth Borton de Treviño

3.76

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Told through the eyes of Velazquez's slave and assistant, this vibrant novel depicts both the beaut… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • school
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. 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

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  • childrens
  • school
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
"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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4. Adam of the Road

By: Elizabeth Gray Vining , Robert Lawson , Elizabeth Janet Gray

3.77

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

"A road's a kind of holy thing," said Roger the Minstrel to his son, Adam. "That's why it's a good… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • school
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. Walk the World's Rim

By: Betty Baker

3.79

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

A 14-year old Indian joins Cabeza de Vaca's 16th-century expedition through the Southwest. A vivid … read more

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  • childrens
  • school
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. 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 Eloise Jarvis McGraw's The Golden Goblet

  • classics
  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • 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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7. Hittite Warrior

By: Joanne Williamson

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Judea has always been the crossroads and battlefield of contending nations. It is no less so in thi… read more

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  • childrens
  • school
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. Call It Courage

By: Armstrong Sperry

3.60

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

A boy tries to overcome his fear of the sea in this treasured classic and winner of the Newbery Med… read more

Similar categories in Armstrong Sperry's Call It Courage book and Eloise Jarvis McGraw's The Golden Goblet

  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Beyond the Desert Gate (Roman Empire Sequence, #4) by Mary Ray

9. 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 Eloise Jarvis McGraw's The Golden Goblet

  • childrens
  • school
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. Otto of the Silver Hand

By: Howard Pyle

4.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

A rich and engrossing thread of Romance runs through this tale of the motherless son of a valiant r… read more

Similar categories in Howard Pyle's Otto of the Silver Hand book and Eloise Jarvis McGraw's The Golden Goblet

  • classics
  • childrens
  • school
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. Black Ships Before Troy

By: Rosemary Sutcliff , Alan Lee

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

Homer's epic poem, The Iliad, is one of the greatest adventure stories of all time. Rich with arres… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • school
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. 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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  • classics
  • childrens
  • school
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • 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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13. 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

Similar categories in Marguerite de Angeli's The Door in the Wall book and Eloise Jarvis McGraw's The Golden Goblet

  • classics
  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

14. 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

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

15. 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 Eloise Jarvis McGraw's The Golden Goblet

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

16. A Murder for Her Majesty

By: Beth Hilgartner

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Horrified at having witnessed her father's murder and fearing that the killers are agents of Queen … read more

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  • school
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery

17. The Children's Homer: The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy

By: Homer , Padraic Colum , Willy Pogány

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Travel back to a mythical time when Achilles, aided by the gods, waged war against the Trojans. And… read more

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18. 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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19. Detectives in Togas

By: Richard Winston , Clara Winston , Henry Winterfeld , Charlotte Kleinert

3.33

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

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

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20. The Good Master

By: Kate Seredy

4.14

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

Jancsi is overjoyed to hear that his cousin from Budapest is coming to spend the summer on his fath… read more

Similar categories in Kate Seredy's The Good Master book and Eloise Jarvis McGraw's The Golden Goblet

  • classics
  • childrens
  • school
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

21. Theras and His Town

By: Caroline Dale Snedeker

3.51

Format: None pages,

Young Theras, born an Athenian, is taken to Sparta by a relative when his father is lost at war. He… read more

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22. Shadow Spinner

By: Susan Fletcher

4.00

Format: 16 pages, Paperback

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23. 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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24. 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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25. Amos Fortune, Free Man

By: Elizabeth Yates , Nora S. Unwin

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

A Newbery Medal Winner When Amos Fortune was only fifteen years old, he was captured by slave trade… read more

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26. 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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27. 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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28. 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 Eloise Jarvis McGraw's The Golden Goblet

  • classics
  • childrens
  • school
  • historical
  • egypt
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery

29. 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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30. Adara

By: Beatrice Gormley

3.86

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

"The soldier heaved me over his shoulder as if I were a spring lamb. "I am not Israelite!" I scream… read more

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19 must-read fiction books like The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Transform Your Habits

The Golden Bull

Marjorie Cowley

3.47

Transform Your Habits

I, Juan de Pareja

Elizabeth Borton de Treviño

3.76

Transform Your Habits

The Great and Terrible Quest

Margaret Lovett

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Adam of the Road

Elizabeth Gray Vining , Robert Lawson , Elizabeth Janet Gray

3.77

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22 Top fiction books like The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli

Transform Your Habits

Secret of the Andes (Puffin Newberry Library)

Ann Nolan Clark

3.54

Transform Your Habits

Adam of the Road

Elizabeth Gray Vining , Robert Lawson , Elizabeth Janet Gray

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Thimble Summer

Elizabeth Enright

3.75

Transform Your Habits

A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32

Joan W. Blos

3.54

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