Larger	The Lion Hunter (The Mark of Solomon) Author: Elizabeth Wein
	Book Information Publisher: Viking Juvenile Book Type: Hardcover Members Wishing: 1 Rating: ? ISBN-13: 9780670061631 - ISBN-10: 0670061638 Publication Date: 6/14/2007 Pages: 208 Reading Level: Young Adult

It is the sixth century in Aksum, Africa. Young Telemakos—King ArthurÂ's half-Ethiopian grandson—is still recovering from his ordeal as a government spy in the far desert, trying to learn who was breaking the EmperorÂ's plague quarantine. Before he is fully himself again, tragedy and menace strike, and he finds himself sent, with his baby sister, Athena, to live with Abreha, the ruler of Himyar—a longtime enemy of the Aksumites, now perhaps a friend. His aunt Goewin, ArthurÂ's daughter, warns him that Abreha is a man to be wary of, someone to watch carefully. Telemakos promises he will be mindful—but he does not realize that GoewinÂ's warnings are not enough to protect him.

The Sunbird (“Intense, absorbing, and luminously written,” Kirkus Reviews, starred review) was the first book about Telemakos. The Lion Hunter continues his story, to be quickly followed by The Empty Kingdom—a two-book sequence called The Mark of Solomon.