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Originally Posted by purl4peace
I have an extremely bright 12-year-old boy who is fascinated by ancient greek battles -- Thermopylae is his favorite. He blew through the Rick Riordan series with each book taking him about a day to read.
Thanks in advance for your suggestions and your help.
Best regards,
Nancy
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After reading the other suggestions, I wonder if his interest is restricted to ancient Greece or would wander into other history too. I have one suggestion and one followup note:
the follow-up regards an earlier suggestion of some of the works of David Drake. If you look up David's web site, he has notes on almost all of his books that sometimes include the classical background of the underlying idea. Most of his SF has some situation from history that triggers the basic story, and you could use this to help select one or more of his books.
The suggestion is the 1632 series by Eric Flint and numerous collaborators. This is alternate history, but set in a part of history that can be inherently interesting, and that has lots of nonfiction resources if you find yourself craving more detail. 1632 is available in the Baen Free Library, and the multi-threaded sequels are also available from Baen.