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The Thieves of Ostia

by Caroline Lawrence.

This is the first book in The Roman Mysteries. 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 AD79, 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.

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by Caroline Lawrence.

This is the first book in The Roman Mysteries. 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 AD79, 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, but The Thieves of Ostia is first and foremost a whodunnit, with lots of twists and cliffhangers and a mystery for the reader to solve.

  • Date published 2004
  • Format Paperback
  • ISBN13 9781842550205
  • Number of pages 208
  • Publisher Hachette Livre Australia: Orion

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