Scholastic My Story: Pompeii
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Price: £6.99
Brand: Scholastic
Description: POMPEII is an engaging story of one of history's most eruptive disasters. 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. Scholastic My Story: Pompeii - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
Category: Books
Merchant: Scholastic
Product ID: 95106
ISBN: 9781407152547
Author: fraser_kris
Rating: 5
Review: The boo Pompeii is very hooking. I read it every night for about half an hour. Especially at the end it is very tense. The hole book is amazing and, just hard to put down! :-D
Author: S. Shamma
Rating: 3
Review: It started out slow, but got interesting about halfway through the book, when Claudia meets a slave English boy who has been separated from his sister and later sold as a gladiator. Claudia gets quite attached to the boy, not able to go the gladiator shows for fear of seeing him get hurt. She also has what seems to be an unreasonable fear of the mountain Vesuvius. Only Vesuvius is actually a volcano, one that is getting ready to erupt after many years of sleep. Several earthquakes that shook Pompeii were signs of this occurrence happening, but back then, no one knew of the relation between earthquakes and volcano eruptions. The inevitable destruction that takes place is quite sad, and the human story involved allowed us a more profound look into this event in history. I enjoyed it very much despite the slow start.
