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Author
Publisher
[CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform]
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Prior to the era of the musketeers. Even prior to the time of Shakespeare. The sword was the side piece and status symbol of the gentleman, throughout Europe. During the 15th and 16th centuries, a famous school of fence was established in Bologna, Italy.The father of this tradition was a Professor of mathematics at the University and was given license to establish a school of fencing. This school lasted for two centuries, culminating in the work...
14) On guard
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
460L
Language
English
Description
Excited by a fencing demonstration he happens to see, fourth grader Mikey starts taking lessons in hopes that the sport will make him special like his brother and sisters.
15) En garde
Author
Series
Nancy Drew girl detective volume 17
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Nancy's friend, George, takes up fencing but something is amiss. Nancy sees blood at George's first meet . . .
17) Zorro
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 26
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Description
Witnessing the injustices against Native Americans by European settlers from childhood, Diego de la Vega, the son of an aristocratic Spanish landowner and a Shoshone mother, returns to California from school in Spain to reclaim the hacienda on which he was raised to seek justice for the weak and helpless. A swashbuckling adventure story that reveals for the first time how Diego de la Vega became the masked man we all know so well Born in southern...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
HL 400L
Language
English
Description
Suspended unjustly from elite Middlefield Prep, Donte Ellison studies fencing with a former champion, hoping to put the racist fencing team captain in his place.
20) Steel
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
When Jill, a competitive high school fencer, goes with her family on vacation to the Bahamas, she is magically transported to an early-eighteenth-century pirate ship in the middle of the ocean.