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Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Their magic tree house takes Annie and Jack to Pompeii just as Vesuvius is about to erupt, and they must find a Roman scroll before everything is covered with burning ash.
Author
Series
I survived volume 10
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Follows the experiences of a young boy who struggles to escape the catastrophic A.D. 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Author
Series
I survived volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"During the infamous eruption of Mount Vesuvius, one boy struggles to escape. Can he survive the most devastating disaster of ancient times? In this thrilling addition to the bestselling I Survived series, readers are taken back to antiquity with a young boy trying to escape as the giant Mount Vesuvius erupts. Does he have what it takes to survive the epic destruction of Pompeii?" -- summary from amazon.com
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tagus is a medical slave who wants be a gladiator, Lucia is the daughter of Tag's owner and betrothed to an older man, and the two teenagers are in love with each other--but it is the year 79 and soon Vesuvius will alter their lives forever.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
What was it like to be a gladiator? How many people died in the destruction of Pompeii? How did Roman children spend their days? Find out the answers to these questions and more in Magic Tree House Research Guide: Ancient Rome and Pompeii. This is the nonfiction companion to Vacation Under the Volcano (Magic Tree House #13).
10) Pompeii
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When the aqueduct that brings fresh water to thousands of people around the bay of Naples fails, Roman engineer Marius Primus heads to the slopes of Mount Vesuvius to investigate, only to come face to face with an impending catastrophe.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Details the events that occurred when Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried Pompeii in 79 A.D., focusing on how this information was deduced from the skeletons found by archaeologists at the site. In ancient times, Pompeii was one of the largest cities in the Roman Empire. Its 20,000 inhabitants lived in the shadow of Vesuvius, which they believed was nothing more than a mountain. But Vesuvius was a volcano. And on the morning of August 24, A.D. 79, Vesuvius...
14) Pompeii
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in 79 A.D., Pompeii tells the epic story of Milo, a slave turned invincible gladiator who finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts in a torrent of blazing lava, Milo must fight his way out of the arena in order to save his beloved as the once magnificent Pompeii crumbles around him.
15) Pompeii
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
Describes the destruction of the city of Pompeii during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, and how its rediscovery nearly 1700 years later provided information about life in the Roman Empire.
17) Pompeii
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Set in 79 A.D., Pompeii tells the epic story of Milo, a slave turned invincible gladiator who finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts in a torrent of blazing lava, Milo must fight his way out of the arena in order to save his beloved as the once magnificent Pompeii crumbles around him.
Series
Lady Emily mystery volume 14
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Lady Emily and her husband, Colin Hargreaves, have accompanied her friend Ivy Brandon on a trip to Pompeii. When they uncover a corpse and the police dismiss the murder as the work of local gangsters, Emily launches an investigation of her own. She seems to be aided by the archaeologists excavating the ruins, including a moody painter, the enigmatic site director, and a free-thinking American capable of sparring with even the Duke of Bainbridge. But...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Paulina is delivering bread to her new friend Fabia's home when Mount Vesuvius begins erupting, but when Fabia's father leaves to help fellow Pompeii residents evacuate, the girls make their way through the city, helping others where they can. Includes facts about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
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