A book with a sword, dagger or shield on the cover

[Emily]

Pretty self-explanatory. Find a book with one of these on the cover: a sword, a dagger, or a shield. Bonus points if it has all 3!

Recommendations:

A Blade so Black by L.L. McKinney
Magnus Chase and the Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan
An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye

[Suzanne]

I had been thinking Song of Achilles for this, but then realized, that’s a helmet, not a shield. I’ll satisfy this with The Mad Wolf’s Daughter for BYL2, but hopefully I’ll also read Song of Achilles.

[Leslie]

I just finished The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud. This is the first book in a middle grade series and it turns out that it is a rapier on the cover, but I am totally counting it.

[Karen]

The Trumpeter of Krakow This historical fiction was a fun read with my eight grader. The story starts in the thirteen century and continues in the fifteenth.

[Nikki]

A friend recommended Swordheart by T. Kingfisher when I asked for lighter book suggestions and not only was it really good but it fits this prompt!