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184 pp.
| Viking |
May, 2007 |
TradeISBN 978-0-670-06196-9$15.99
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4-6
The friendship between a rich Roman girl and her slave is threatened by the family's decision to remove both girls from the household--one to serve in a temple and the other to be a concubine. Gladiators, a forbidden romance, and an erupting Mount Vesuvius all add to the busy melodrama of this historical fiction. An author's note is appended.