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The Thieves of Ostia

The Roman Mysteries Ser.

by Caroline Lawrence

Synopsis

Flavia Gemina is brilliant at finding things, so it's natural for her to solve mysteries. The daughter of a ship's captain living in Ostia, the port of Rome, in AD 79, she acquires a gang of three friends who help her. There is Jonathan, the Jewish boy (and secretly a Christian); Nubia, the African slave girl; and Lupus, a mute beggar boy. Together they work out who severed the heads of the watchdogs that guard people's homes, and why he did it. Caroline Lawrence is a terrific storyteller and a delightfully readable and accessible writer with characters that children will relate to. Her picture of daily life in Ancient Rome is wonderfully vivid. ButThe Thieves of Ostiais first and foremost a whodunnit, with lots of twist and cliffhangers—and a mystery for the reader to solve.

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Book Information

Copyright year 2002
ISBN-13 9781842550205
ISBN-10 1842550209
Class Copyright
Publisher Orion Children's Books
Subject Fiction;Juvenile Fiction
File Size 0 MB
Number of Pages 208
Shelf No. KM886
Grade Range 7 - 9
Ages 12 - 14