Masada by Gloria D Miklowitz

Masada by Gloria D Miklowitz

In the year 72 C.E., after a four-year war between Rome and Judea, only one fortress remains to be taken: Masada, high above the Dead Sea in what is now Israel. Two years later, the commander of the famous Roman Tenth Legion, Flavius Silva, marches toward Masada to capture or kill the 960 Jewish zealots who hold it.
In this eloquent and powerful novel, we meet 17-year-old Simon ben Eleazar, son of the Jewish leader of Masada. Apprenticed too Masada s only physician, Simon learns to help victims of the enemy s onslaught as he struggles with his love for Deborah, the intended of his best friend, and with the painful decision he must ultimately make.

Gloria D. Miklowitz is the author of over 60 fiction and nonfiction books for children and young adults. Her books have won national and international awards and deal with important issues such as racial injustice, steroid abuse, date violence and militia involvement. Three of her novels were made into award-winning television specials, including one which won the Emmy for Best Children's Special in 1985 (The War Between the Classes). A frequent speaker at schools, Ms. Miklowitz has also taken part in conferences in the United States, South Africa and Sweden.

After graduating from the University of Michigan, Miklowitz married and moved to California where she became a script writer of documentary films on rockets and torpedoes for the Navy Department. Her husband, a scientist, became Professor of Engineering at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. When her second son was born she left her job and began writing for children, entering a manuscript in a national contest and selling her first book.

As her children grew older she wrote for middle grades and then young adults. More than half her published books are for the older reader. She says, I write because I like to try on different lives through my characters and want to help young people find answers to their problems.

A widow, Ms. Miklowitz lives in La Canada, California. Her two sons are college professors of Philosophy and Psychology. All four Miklowitzes have books in print and one granddaughter is now trying her hand at being a writer.

For more biographical information see www.authors4teens.com and the 17th edition of Something About the Author Autobiography Series, pp 225-241.

Most Recent Books:
The Enemy Has a Face. Eerdmans. Spring '03
Secrets in the House of Delgardo. Eerdmans 2001
Masada, the Last Fortress. Eerdmans. 1999
Camouflage. Harcourt Brace. 1998
Past Forgiving. Simon & Schuster. 1995
The Killing Boy. Bantam Books. 1993

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ISBN 13	9780802851680
ISBN 10	0802851681
Title	Masada
Author	Gloria D Miklowitz
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	William B Eerdmans Publishing Co
Year published	1999-09-01
Number of pages	188
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