Barbarians! by Steven Kroll ; illustrated by Robert Byrd.ISBN: 9780525479581
Publisher: Dutton Children's Books, p2009, c2009
Reading Level 6.7
The ancient Romans used the word "barbarian" to describe people who were coarse, rude, or even just foreign. Over time the word has also come to connote bloodthirsty cruelty. But were the Goths, the Huns, the Vikings, and the Mongols as barbaric as we've been led to believe?