Title: Outcast
First published: August 1979
Description: Fifteen-year-old Beric feels increasingly bitter isolation when, because of his Roman birth, he is cast out by the Celtic tribe that raised him and, after reaching a Roman settlement, he is sold into slavery and sentenced to serve in a galley for the rest of his life.
Subjects: Children's fiction, Great britain, history, to 1066, fiction, Slavery, fiction, Juvenile fiction, History, Fiction, Slavery
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D.