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10 best books like The Empty Kingdom (Elizabeth E. Wein): Saturday, the Twelfth of October, The Whim of the Dragon, The Idylls of the Queen: A Tale of Queen Guenevere, River Rats, Frontier Wolf, Chasing Shackleton: Re-creating the World's Greatest Journey of Survival, The Legend of the King, The Oak Above the Kings, The Hex Witch of Seldom, The Quest for Arthur's Britain

Saturday, the Twelfth of October
AuthorNorma Fox Mazer
ISBN0440995922
This was one of my favorite books as a kid. Was thrilled to discover it is still a good book when I read it as an adult. Zan, the protagonist, is transported back in time to a (presumed) prehistoric tribe. Zan's time with these people is a well written comming of age story. We never do learn who exactly the tribe...
The Whim of the Dragon
AuthorPamela Dean
ISBN0142501611
The Third and Final book of the Secret Country Trilogy!
 
Three things have the power to destroy the Secret Country: the Border Magic, the Crystal of Earth, and the whim of the dragon. The cousins Ted, Laura, Ruth, Patrick, and Ellen have faced the first two; now, summoned back to the Secret Country,...
The Idylls of the Queen: A Tale of Queen Guenevere
AuthorPhyllis Ann Karr
ISBN1587150123
In The Idylls of the Queen, Phyllis Ann Karr takes an incident (the murder of Sir Patrise) from Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur and creates an intelligent, complex, and fascinating mystery novel perfect for fans of historical mysteries, of British legends, and of fantasy.

Queen Guenevere...
River Rats
AuthorCaroline Stevermer
ISBN0152055541
A paddle wheeler cruises up the Mississippi, delivering mail and hosting an occasional concert. A scene straight out of the nineteenth century? Not quite. This Mississippi is a toxic brown river. And the paddle wheeler is run by the River Rats, a troop of orphans who survived the Flash, a nuclear holocaust....
Frontier Wolf
AuthorRosemary Sutcliff
ISBN0140314725
A.D. 349

Alexios Flavius Aquila is an excellent swordsman but an immature military leader. A disastrous decision nearly gets him discharged from the Roman army, but his high-ranking uncle begrudgingly pulls some strings, and well-meaning-but-inept Alexios is transferred instead.

The...
Chasing Shackleton: Re-creating the World's Greatest Journey of Survival
AuthorTim Jarvis
In this extraordinary adventure memoir and tie-in to the PBS documentary, Tim Jarvis, one of the world's leading explorers, describes his modern-day journey to retrace, for the first time ever—and in period clothing and gear—the legendary 1914 expedition of Sir Ernest Shackleton.In early...
The Legend of the King
AuthorGerald Morris
ISBN0547144202
In this final installment of the Squire's Tale series, Terence and his fellow Knights of the Round Table must come together in a last stand to save Camelot. The characters Gerald Morris has brought to life throughout his series—“Terence and Gawain, Lynet and Gaheris, Luneta and Rhience, Dinadan...
The Oak Above the Kings
AuthorPatricia Kennealy-Morrison
ISBN0451454510
Taliesin, chief Bard of Keltia, brother in sword and deed and marraige to Arthur the king, sets his magical seeings into fated words. He tells how Arthur, the lost prince, overthrows the evil, uprising Archdruid and at last comes to his own kingship. But it is a double throne which he must share by law and...
The Hex Witch of Seldom
AuthorNancy Springer
ISBN0142302201
The King, the Sorceress, the Trickster . . . they are members of the Circle of Twelve, primal human archetypes whose powers are manifest in us all. Most people never meet the Twelve, except in books and movies-but they exist. Those who have the Sight, like young Bobbi Yandro, can speak with them at will....
The Quest for Arthur's Britain
AuthorGeoffrey Ashe
ISBN0897332873
The story of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is the chief myth of Britain. But is it something more than myth? Solid facts have emerged through the recent work of archaeologists. This book examines the historical foundations of the Arthurian tradition, and then presents the results of excavations...
Camelot's Blood
AuthorSarah Zettel
ISBN0007158742
An evocative and highly engaging romantic fantasy set in the evocative time of King Arthur. Laurel Carnbrea, Queen of Cambryn, arrives at Camelot to marry a man she has never met -- Sir Agravain, the brother of the renowned Sir Gawain. Laurel has heard that Agravain is a reserved and cold man, but marriage...
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