Tingle, Rebecca.

The edge on the sword / Rebecca Tingle. - New York : Speak/Penguin, 2003, c2001. - 277 p. : map ; 17 cm.

Sequel: Far traveler.

In ninth-century Britain, fifteen-year-old Aethelflaed, daughter of King Alfred of West Saxony, finds she must assume new responsibilities much sooner than expected when she is betrothed to Ethelred of Mercia in order to strengthen a strategic alliance against the Danes.

Suggested fro grades 7 to 10.

0142500585 $6.99


Ethelfled, d. 918 --Juvenile fiction.


Kings and rulers--Juvenile fiction.
Anglo-Saxons--Juvenile fiction.
Vikings--Juvenile fiction.


Great Britain--History--Juvenile fiction.
Mercia (Kingdom)--Juvenile fiction.

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