Sea of Trolls, Book 1
by Nancy Farmer
appears in Teen, Teen & Young Adult, and Adult.
?The Sea of Trolls blends ancient history and Norse epics with recognizable bits of Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings? (The New York Times).Jack is kidnapped by berserkers from his Saxon village in the year A.D. 793, an occurrence forewarned by his mentor the Bard. Captured by Viking chief Olaf OneBrow, Jack and his sister, Lucy, are swiftly tak...
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appears in Teen, Teen & Young Adult, and Adult.
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 13 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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