Full name: Masada: The Last Fortress

Author: Gloria D. Miklowitz Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780802851659 0802851657

From the Back Cover: "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. In this eloquent historical novel we meet 17-year-old Simon ben Eleazar, son of the Jewish leader of the Zealots, who records the Roman legion's relentless siege and the moving story of the Jews' last stand on Masada." Similar books: A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini East of Eden by John Steinbeck Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline 11/22/63 by Stephen King A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty Number the Stars by Lois Lowry