Racing with Gladiators
- ISBN-10
- 1862309000
- ISBN-13
- 9781862309005
- Category
- Adventure stories
- Pages
- 96
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Random House
- Author
- Mary Pope Osborne
Description
Now master librarians, Jack and Annie are sent on a mission to find a lost story - in ancient Rome! It seems peaceful until the ground shakes and they realise they're there on the day that Mount Vesuvius erupts and they're in danger of being buried !
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