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Templar

by Jordan Mechner

Illustrator: LeUyen Pham

Ages: 12+

Published: 2013

Publisher: First Second/Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan

ISBN: 978-1-59643-393-9

Keywords: Graphic format

A few knights escape the persecution and massacre of the Templars by the King of France in 1307, and search for their legendary treasure.