![]() ![]() Three captivating mysteries, compulsive reading for 9-11 year-olds. Determined to find out who is responsible, the friends come face to face with pirates and slave-dealers. Sheltering in the refugee camps following the eruption, they discover that children are being kidnapped from the camps in THE PIRATES OF POMPEII. When Mount Vesuvius erupts, they flee one of the greatest natural disasters of all time. Not long after solving this mystery, THE SECRETS OF VESUVIUS finds them relaxing near Pompeii. ![]() They have new neighbors: a boy named Jonathan, his sister. The thieves of Ostia by Caroline Lawrence. Flavia lives in Ostia, the seaport of Rome, where her father is often away at sea. The Thieves of Ostia (The Roman Mysteries 1) by Caroline Lawrence, 2001, Orion Childrens edition, in English. A fast-paced, crackling good mystery is set in the tenth year of the Emperor Vespasian and aimed at middle-grade readers. In THE THIEVES OF OSTIA, the four friends get on the trail of the killer who is silencing the town's watchdogs. by Caroline Lawrence RELEASE DATE: May 1, 2001. ![]() Join Flavia Gemina, a Roman sea captain's daughter, Jonathan, her Jewish neighbour, Nubia, the African slave-girl, and Lupus, the mute beggar boy, on three exciting adventures. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£9.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. First edition, second impression with number line '3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2'. ![]()
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