Pompeii

By Sue Reid

Subjects: Italy, fiction, Manners and customs, Pompeii (extinct city), fiction, Girls, fiction, Girls, Eruption, 79, Children's fiction, Social life and customs, Juvenile fiction, History

Description: It's August AD 78 and Claudia is at the Forum in Pompeii. It's a day of strange encounters and even odder portents. When the ground shakes Claudia is convinced it is a bad omen. What does it all mean? And why is she so disturbed by Vesuvius, the great volcano that looms over the city.