Title: Birth of a warrior
Description: When Persians invade Sparta while thirteen-year-old Lysander is training to be a soldier, he finds his loyalties are divided between Spartan honor and the Helot slaves with whom he lived most of his life.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Slavery, Social classes, Amulets, Soldiers, Fiction, Orphans, History, Children's historical fiction, Slaves Greece Sparta (Extinct city) Juvenile fiction, Survival skills Juvenile fiction, Sparta (Extinct city) Juvenile fiction, Historical fiction
Places: Sparta (Extinct city), Greece
People: Lysander (d. 395 B.C)
Time periods: Spartan and Theban supremacies, 404-362 B.C.