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Ya know, I've poked at this Sparta, Peloponnesian War thing a couple times this week looking for some other books but I can't find much. Before I steered him into science fiction which he may never come out of, I'd take advantage of his interest in history and maybe try C.S. Forester's Hornblower books and if he digs that, on to Alexander Kent and Patrick O'Brian and Bernard Cornwell. Thomas Costain wrote a bunch of historical novels but not series. Rafael Sabatini's Captain Blood (pirates) and Scaramouche (French Revolution). Like I mentioned before, Mary Stewart for the King Arthur stuff, G.A. Henty for excellent historical adventures for early teens. Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers (I'd go the kids abridged version first). Arthur Conan Doyle's The White Company. Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe and The Talisman and Quentin Durward. Stevenson's Kidnapped and David Balfour. And if he's interested in horses at all, Walter Farley's books about The Black Stallion from which they made that movie, is a whole series.
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