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Orion Children's Books
(10+) The four friends, met in numerous other tales, Flavia, Jonathon, Nubia and Lupus, are appalled when they discover their tutor, Aristo, bending over Flavia's father's body, covered with blood. Everyone assumes the young man is guilty and he is taken away by the authorities while the children send for help with Pater, who seems to be still breathing. By the time the doctor comes and pronounces him alive but with amnesia, Aristo has escaped and so the four are after him. Their adventures take them along the road to Corinth where they meet a variety of people, most of whom are willing to help them find the murderer.
One in the The Roman Mysteries series, these stories have broad appeal to the upper primary, lower secondary student with a penchant for crime and ancient times. The amount of information about Ancient Greece and Rome that the author fits into the pages is astonishing, and the maps at the front of the book serve the reader well. Exciting and absorbing, the four main characters are most attractive, the author presenting them not as historical figures from the past, but flesh and blood children with fears and foibles, as they travel along an unknown road.
Fran Knight
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The fugitive from Corinth by Caroline Lawrence
Orion Children's Books(10+) The four friends, met in numerous other tales, Flavia, Jonathon, Nubia and Lupus, are appalled when they discover their tutor, Aristo, bending over Flavia's father's body, covered with blood. Everyone assumes the young man is guilty and he is taken away by the authorities while the children send for help with Pater, who seems to be still breathing. By the time the doctor comes and pronounces him alive but with amnesia, Aristo has escaped and so the four are after him. Their adventures take them along the road to Corinth where they meet a variety of people, most of whom are willing to help them find the murderer.
One in the The Roman Mysteries series, these stories have broad appeal to the upper primary, lower secondary student with a penchant for crime and ancient times. The amount of information about Ancient Greece and Rome that the author fits into the pages is astonishing, and the maps at the front of the book serve the reader well. Exciting and absorbing, the four main characters are most attractive, the author presenting them not as historical figures from the past, but flesh and blood children with fears and foibles, as they travel along an unknown road.
Fran Knight
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