Curses and Smoke: A Novel of Pompeii

by Vicky Alvear Shecter

Book Overview

TAG is a medical slave, doomed to spend his life healing his master's injured gladiators. But his warrior's heart yearns to fight in the gladiator ring himself and earn enough money to win his freedom.

LUCIA is the daughter of Tag's owner, doomed by her father's greed to marry a much older Roman man. But she loves studying the natural world around her home in Pompeii, and lately she's been noticing some odd occurrences in the landscape: small...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0545509939
• ISBN13: 9780545509930
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
• Length: 327 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12