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\ This column is a con- \ tinued list of history books J from an American Library Association pamphlet entitled "Tracking the Past" which list books for the entire family regardless of whether the book is classed adult or juvenile. They represent some of the best historical fiction published in the last few years. The Lantern Bearers. Rosemary Sutcliff. Walk, 1959. . When the Roman legions abandon Britain after occupying it for 400 years, Aquila, a young legionnaire, suddenly decides that be is more Briton than Roman and will defect to his family's farm. Hardly is he settled, however, when the Saxons ' invade, kill his father, abduct his sister, and carry him into slavery. Although eventually he escapes and joins an. outpost of Roman-Briton guerillas, he is fighting for a cause which, of course, he doesn't know is already lost. A fascinating insight into the private life of someone caught in one of those cracks in history when one culture supplants another.

The Life and Death of . Yellow Bird. James Foreman. Farrar, 1973. The last stand of Indians from the Battle of Little Big Horn to Wounded Knee as seen through the eyes of Yellow Bird, illegitimate son of General Custer and an Indian princess. The Light in the Forest. Conrad Richter. Knopf, 1953. Ever since he was 4 years old and captured by the Indians, his name had been True Son. At 15 it was as if he'd never had white blood, so when he returned to white parents who called him John Butler, he was repelled. He could never adjust to the confinement of white clothes, white houses, the artificiality, of white ways; yet when his Indian freedom was within his grasp, he made an impulsive move that surprised even him. |» My Brother Sam is Dead. James L. -Collier and Christopher Collier. Four Winds. 1974. Although Tim Meeker s father was sympathetic to the Tories, he hoped the RevolutionaryWar would pass oyer and around him without getting him involved by an ironic set of circumstances, however, his older son, Sam (who has joined the rebels) is shot by a firing squad from his own army, and Mr. Meeker himself, loyal though he is, is captured and imprisoned by the British. Young Tim. the narrator of the story, tries to make sense of it all, and in the end wonders if there might not have been another way besides war to work things out. . Nectar in a Sieve. Kamala Markandava, New American Library. 1955. Those who lived off the land knew, Rukmani said: sometimes they ate; sometimes they starved. And if they were only te- , nant farmers they might lose the land itself. Surely life metted out every possible disaster to Rukmani and her husband, yet they \ "VQM

neither gave up nor turned bitter. A brave and pitiful account of relentless Indian poverty. The story might have taken place at any time; it needs no date. The Road from Home: The Story of an American Girl. David Kherdian. Green willow, 1979. Writing in the fipeL -person, poet David- Kherdian , tells the story of his mother whose home was in the American section of a Turkis city. Secure and happy for the first eight years of her life, Veron Dumen was suddenly uprooted in 1915, when the Turks decided to do away with all Armenians. Vernon is a survivor of that helocaust, for, while being shunte from city to city, she loses all the members of her immediate family, is herself wounded, takes refuge in an orphanage, and narrowly escapes a mass burning at Amyrna. A chronicle of courage, the story ends in 1924 as Veron celebrates her engagement to Melkon Kherdian, who awaits her, sight unseen, in America. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. Eleanor B. Coerr. Putnam. 1977. According to a Japanese legend, the gods will grant health to a person who folds a thousand paper cranes. But what did that legend have to do with Sadako? It had been ten years since the atom bomb had been dropped on hfer native city, Hiroshima, and she was still healthy, Indeed, she was a champion runner in her school. However, as it turn&) out, it wasn't too late to get the atom bomb disease, and although the doctors hoped to cure her, Sadako wasn't going to leave that to chance. She began folding paper cranes — 644 cranes altogether. A short, sad story for all ages which ..alas, is true. Sadako's statue stands today in the Hiroshima Peace Park. ' The Stronghold. Mollie 1 Hunter. Harper. 1974. Dur- ■, ing the first century Roman warriors regularly I raided the Orkney Islands for slaves. So successful were they, the local people argued about whether to fight the next time or simply to hide the chief and his councillors 'took one side the Druids the other. In the end it was crippled young Cdll who solved the dilemma by inventing a stone stronghold. This imaginary- account of the origin of /such strongholds — uniqqe to the area — is convincing; so are the characters, the lovely islands, and the violent times. » Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold. Jean Fritz. Putnam, 1981. A daredevil as a boy, a hero 1' of the early years of the American Revolution. Benedict Arnold always fejt he had to prove himself. "The bravest of ■ the brave." Washington called him. / Yet Arnold s desire to khow off, his penchant for -^heroism, his need for praise and rewards were insatiable, leading him finally to -turn traitor — an act which he claimed was patriotic and for which he never felt guilt. The story of one of the most dramatic eptaodea of the Revolution and a study of one of its most perplexing characters

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