- Kidnapping, Ocean travel, Slavery, Fiction
In 80 A.D., ten-year-old Roman sleuth Flavia and her friends sail from Corinth to Rhodes to try to stop a mysterious man who is kidnapping children and selling them into slavery.
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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
- 2005
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Roaring Brook Press, Orion Children's Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), Orion Children's Books
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781842552537
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