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Lawrence, Caroline.
THE PIRATES OF POMPEII
Brookfield, CT : Roaring Brook Press, 2003.
IL 5-8, RL 6.0
ISBN 0761326049
Flavia and her friends are back for another adventure.  The friends are living at a refugee camp following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.  While helping the doctors, Flavia, Jonathan, Lupus and Nubia notice that many children are missing.  Sure it could be caused by the chaos but the friends have another theory.  They think the children have been kidnapped.  The search for the missing children is on.  Can the friends solve yet another mystery?  What do you think?

 
SUBJECTS:     Kidnapping -- Fiction.
                        Pirates -- Fiction.
                        Slavery -- Fiction.
                        Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. -- Fiction.
                        Vesuvius (Italy) -- Eruption, 79 -- Fiction.
                        Mystery and detective stories.
                        Historical fiction.

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