Outcast

Description:

Fifteen-year-old Beric feels increasingly bitter isolation when, because of his Roman birth, he is cast out by the Celtic tribe that raised him and, after reaching a Roman settlement, he is sold into slavery and sentenced to serve in a galley for the rest of his life.

subjects: Children's fiction,  Great britain, history, to 1066, fiction,  Slavery, fiction,  Juvenile fiction,  History,  Fiction,  Slavery

Places: Great Britain

Times: Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D.