- Kidnapping, Pirates, Slavery, Fiction
At a refugee camp following the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius which buried Pompeii, Flavia and her friends discover that children are disappearing and a very powerful citizen might be involved.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Caroline Lawrence
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 185
- Publisher
- Orion Children's Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), Puffin, Orion Children's Books
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780761315841
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