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1) Steel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Jill, a competitive high school fencer, goes with her family on vacation to the Bahamas, she is magically transported to an early-eighteenth-century pirate ship in the middle of the ocean.
2) Duel
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixth grader Lucy is brand-new to middle school, and when her older sister GiGi--the undisputed queen bee of eighth grade--humiliates her in the cafeteria, Lucy snaps and challenges her to a fencing duel.
5) One for all
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Language
English
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Description
In 1655 sixteen-year-old Tania is the daughter of a retired musketeer, but she is afflicted with extreme vertigo and subject to frequent falls; when her father is murdered she finds that he has arranged for her to attend Madame de Treville's newly formed Académie des Mariées in Paris, which, it turns out, is less a school for would-be wives, than a fencing academy for girls--and so Tania begins her training to be a new kind of musketeer, and to...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
157 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This book, written in a style easily comprehensible by a child and containing motivating illustrations, was written for the child. by inviting the child to complete individual tasks, to solve puzzles, to answer questions and to complete drawings, the book achieves the feel of an activity book. The little cartoon character "Foily" invites the child to practice independently. The contents correspond to the most basic level of fencing training. It is...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Witnessing the injustices against Native Americans by European settlers from childhood, Diego de la Vega, the son of an aristocratic Spanish landowner and a Shoshone mother, returns to California from school in Spain to reclaim the hacienda on which he was raised to seek justice for the weak and helpless. A swashbuckling adventure story that reveals for the first time how Diego de la Vega became the masked man we all know so well Born in southern...
9) En garde
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
142 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nancy's friend, George, takes up fencing but something is amiss. Nancy sees blood at George's first meet ...
10) By the sword: a history of gladiators, musketeers, samurai, swashbucklers, and Olympic champions
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 519 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
11) The fencer
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Estonian
Description
"Fleeing from the Soviet secret police, Estonian fencer Endel Nelis returns to his homeland and finds work as a children's sports instructor. Quickly becoming a role model to his students, Nelis begins teaching them competitive fencing techniques despite the objections of school administrators. When the children are invited to a fencing tournament in Leningrad, Nelis must make a choice: put his safety first or risk everything to take the children...
Author
Series
Fence (Graphic novel) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nicholas, the illegitimate son of a retired fencing champion, is a scrappy fencing wunderkind, and dreams of getting the chance and the training to actually compete. After getting accepted to the prodigious Kings Row private school, Nicholas is thrust into a cut-throat world, and finds himself facing not only his golden-boy half-brother, but the unbeatable, mysterious Seiji Katayama... Through clashes, rivalries, and romance between teammates, Nicholas...
14) Foiled
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Aliera is a star at fencing, but at school no one notices her-- until her new lab partner Avery begins flirting with her. Aliera's mother just bought her a foil from a garage sale, and it has a strange jewel attached to the hilt. Will Aliera's first date be ruined when magical creatures try to steal her foil?
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A murder mystery in 1886 Madrid featuring an old fencing master who still teaches in the age of the pistol. He is famous for his unstoppable thrust and one day a beautiful woman arrives asking he teach it to her. The novel traces their relationship. By the author of The Flanders Panel.
Author
Series
Fence (Graphic novel) volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Nicholas Cox is determined to prove himself in the world of competitive fencing, and earn his place on the Kings Row fencing team, alongside sullen fencing prodigy, Seiji Katayama, to win the right to go up against his golden-boy half-brother.
17) Dueling princes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
While competing in the British fencing trials and dating a real-life prince, fifteen-year-old Calypso tries to contend with her mother who has recently arrived from California after leaving her husband.
18) Stealing princes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
295 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Back at her elegant English boarding school for another term, Californian Calypso Kelly continues her pursuit of Prince Freddy with style.
19) Pulling princes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
224 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hoping to become more popular at her elegant English boarding school, fifteen-year-old Californian Calypso Kelly invents a fake handsome boyfriend, until she realizes that her wit and skill at fencing may be enough to attract the attention of a real-life handsome prince.
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