Warrior Queen: Battle Boy 16


Book Description

CLASSIFIED INFORMATION Agent's profile: Code name: Battle Boy 005 (BB005) Real name: Napoleon Augustus Smythe Age: 11 years old Assignment: Operation Battle Book Controller: Professor Juanita Perdu Duty: To operate as a Human Data-Collecting Device (HD-CD) Survival gear: SimulSkin (high-tech, skin-coloured body armour), Battle Watch and assorted gadgets Mission directive: To spy on the past Mission 16: Warrior Queen Book no. 145: Boudicea's Uprising - AD 60-61 Mission objective: In this special Verge Volume - containing multiple battles - BB005 must navigate his way through time and space to locate Queen Boadicea of the Iceni tribe, who led an uprising against the occupying Roman Empire. BB005 must return the Great Torc to Boudicea before the final battle so that history remains on course!




Time Thieves, The: Omega Squad 1


Book Description

Thirteen-year-old Napoleon Augustus Smythe (Battle Boy 005) is now Battle Agent 005. Along with BA004, BA009 and super soldier TEX, he is a member of Omega Squad - an elite team of Time Troopers sent back into history for Operation Battle Book. But Professor Perdu, their mission controller, is worried. Someone is stealing TIME and ENERGY bundles from the Battle Books. Someone is determined to sabotage Operation Battle Book. But who? And why?




The Time Thieves: Omega Squad 1


Book Description

Thirteen-year-old Napoleon Augustus Smythe (Battle Boy 005) is now Battle Agent 005.Along with BA004 (a super smart boy but a real smarty pants too), BA009 (a girl with attitude and no time for a smarty pants) and super soldier TEX, he is a member of the Omega Squad, an elite team of Time Troopers sent back into history for Operation Battle Book.Professor Perdu, their mission controller, is worried. Someone is stealing the TIME and ENERGY bundles from the Battle Books. But who is behind these attacks? And why?Omega Squad is sent on a series of Master Missions to investigate these clandestine forces who seek to use Operation Battle Book for evil ends.




History Hackers: Omega Squad 2


Book Description

Operation Battle Book is under attack! In a mysterious case of high-tech body snatching, Battle Books have been secretly hacked into and robbed of their key historical figures. Great leaders from the past - generals, emperors, warriors, kings and queens - have been stolen! Omega Squad must find the culprits before the Battle Books are completely destroyed. But Professor Perdu is being watched by MANIC, and Alpha Agent One has gone underground. BA005, BA004 and BA009 can trust no one.




The Warrior Princess: Book 3 of Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene'


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Edmund Spenser's tomb at Westminster Abbey has the inscription, the Prince of Poets. If you've read Books I and II of his unfinished English epic, The Faerie Queene, you know why by now. Book III is one of the most unique books, written from the perspective of the heroic Britomart, a warrior princess in search of her true love. Along the way she encounters wizards, monsters, braggarts, sea gods, cheats, and at the end, a deathly palace.




DK Eyewitness Books: Soldier


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This latest addition to the long-running Eyewitness series looks at the life of the professional soldier, from Greek hoplites to infantrymen in the trenches of the Somme and today's UN peacekeepers. Eyewitness Soldier follows soldiers through signing up, rising through the ranks, through their experiences in combat, to how they are honoured and remembered.




Boys' Life


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Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.




The Essential Aeneid


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Stanley Lombardo's deft abridgment of his 2005 translation of the Aeneid preserves the arc and weight of Virgil's epic by presenting major books in their entirety and abridged books in extended passages seamlessly fitted together with narrative bridges. W. R. Johnson's Introduction, a shortened version of his masterly Introduction to that translation, will be welcomed by both beginning and seasoned students of the Aeneid, and by students of Roman history, classical mythology, and Western civilization.







His Mighty Warrior


Book Description

How do you captivate the heart of a boy? With words from a loving God about the courageous man of honor he will one day be. He dreams of imaginary castles, knights, and daring adventures–but he is already the child of a real King, and a part of a real kingdom! In a beautifully illustrated, two-way conversation between that King and his warrior-child, His Mighty Warrior offers the truth about what it really means to grow up strong, brave and true. From best selling author Sheri Rose Shepherd, here is a thoughtful gift for reading to–or with–that special boy in your life.