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Gr 8 Up—Livingston shifts genres from fantasy set in modern New York City, as in the "Wondrous Strange" trilogy, to historical fiction set in ancient Rome. Fallon, the younger daughter of a Celtic king, sets out on a revenge mission the night of her 17th birthday and is captured by slavers, who sell her to a training academy for female gladiators. As she deals with her new status and the expectation that she will fight (and possibl...Log In or Sign Up to Read More