American Home-School PublishingPO Box 453, Cameron, MO 64429Phone: (816) 632-1503Main NavigationHome PageAbout UsContact UsWholesaleRetailersHome PagePublisher of fine Children’s books, specializing in historical fiction,biography, and history—including books by Caroline Dale Snedeker,twice Newbery Honor winner.Also, don’t miss our titles by authors Olivia Coolidge, Margaret Leighton, John S. White, LL.D., and our two autobiographies on WW-II by William F. McMurdie  and Jean McAnlis McMurdie.(All prices are in US dollars.)Theras and His Town, by Caroline Dale Snedeker (Ancient Greece)Young Theras, born an Athenian with all the rights, privileges, and freedoms this entails, is taken to Sparta by a relative when his father is lost at war. He is forced to live like a Spartan, a brutal life with no pity for those who are not physically perfect and totally obedient to Spartan control. After enduring rigorous training and repeated cruel incidents, he escapes with a Perioikoi boy and heads for Athens. After a hard and dangerous journey including escape from slavers, and at the end of his strength, Theras encounters Herodotus who takes both boys to Athens. There, Theras is reunited with his family and their confiscated property is restored.This book helps the young reader understand and internalize the differences between the cultures of Athens and Sparta—a difference that is central to a good comprehension of ancient Greek history. (208 pages) Ages 10-15ISBN: 0-9667067-9-X AHSP# 5300
Retail Price………..$14.95
A Triumph for Flavius, by Caroline Dale Snedeker (Rome)
This is a touching story of a young Roman boy, Flavius, and his developing compassion for his captured Greek slave Ariphron. Ariphron was given to Flavius by his father, General Lucius Mummius, at the time of the father’s public triumph for his victories in Greece and Corinth. You will learn about Roman culture by observing Flavius’ relationships with his family among the sights and sounds of Rome. Drama, personal development, tragedy, hope, compassion, triumph—this story has it all in a form easily understood by the young reader.
This book is a wonderful introduction to the study of ancient Rome. Bring this culture to life—don’t just teach language, emperors, wars and dates.
(64 pages) Ages 8-11
ISBN: 978-0-9779000-7-7 AHSP# 4822
Retail Price……..$11.95
The White Isle, by Caroline Dale Snedeker (Roman Britain)
The White Isle is Britain—a barbaric land to the patrician Claudian family exiled from Hadrian’s Rome, but an island of strange enchantment and stirring adventures to Lavinia, their daughter. Because Favonius, Lavinia’s father, had been too much in sympathy with the old Republic and had protested when the Emperor proposed to take the street Favonius’ house was on to expand his palace, Favonius incurred the Emperor’s disfavor, and was suddenly appointed “legatus” to