Review: Eagle of the Ninth–Rosemary Sutcliff

A tale of adventure in ancient Britain. A young centurion arrives in Roman Britain to take his first command at a small Roman fort in Britain. During an uprising he's badly injured.  As he's trying to regain his health he hears rumors of a missing Roman Eagle.  His father had led the missing legion whose Eagle it was. He determines to go off above Hadrian's wall and bring back the Eagle and hopefully clear his father's name. And, with luck, bring honor to the Ninth Legion once again.

A good adventure with very likeable characters. And a wolf! 

Fairly slow start, as the circumstances are set up by the author, but once the quest is on, very exciting and enjoyable.

FWIW: I have no idea why this is tagged so often 'children' or 'young adult'. I nearly didn’t read it because of that.  It is not a coming of age story and all the characters are adults.