Whatever Lysander had started, he would finish.
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Electronic edition published in October 2011
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ford, Michael (Michael James).
The Fire of Ares / Michael Ford.
Summary: When slaves rebel in ancient Sparta, twelve-year-old Lysander, guarded by an heirloom amulet, the Fire of Ares, is caught between the Spartan ruling class, with whom he has been training as a warrior since his noble heritage was revealed, and those among whom he was recently laboring as a slave.
eISBN: 978 0 8027 2817 3 (ebook)
1. Lysander, d. 395 B.C.—Juvenile fiction. [1. Lysander, d. 395 B.C.—Fiction. 2. Slavery—Fiction. 3. Amulets—Fiction. 4. Social classes—Fiction. 5. Sparta (Extinct city)—Fiction. 6. Greece—History—Spartan and Theban supremacies, 404–362 B.C.—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7. F75328Fir 2008 [Fic]—dc22 2007024237
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