- Riddles, Adventure and adventurers, Juvenile fiction, Antiquities
Ten-year-old Flavia and her friends encounter the Roman admiral Pliny before making a journey to her uncle's farm near Mt. Vesuvius, where they try to solve a riddle, reunite a family, and get out of the path of a natural disaster.
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Classical in form, earnest, resolved and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Caroline Lawrence
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 199
- Publisher
- Roaring Brook Press, Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), Orion Children's Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780761315834
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