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By Caroline Lawrence
The protagonists of this novel are: Flavia Gemina, Nubia, Lupus, and Jonathan. It takes place in ancient Rome, in AD 79.Flavia and her friends are staying nearby Naples, in a villa that belongs to Flavia's uncle. One day, when they are on the beach, they see a boat in the sea, and a man calling for help. The kids' tutor Aristo and Lupus swim to him, and save him. They discover he is Admiral Pliny, a very important person in the Roman Empire, especially the fleet. He thanks them and gives Flavia a riddle to solve, that leads to a treasure. He tells her the smith Vulcan has answers. Flavia solves the riddle and for a lucky coincidence Vulcan stays for a few days in their house. If you want to know how the story ends, you better read the book!
By Caroline Lawrence"The Fugitive of Corinth" is the tenth book in the Roman Mysteries series. It takes place in Corinth, Athens and Delphi, which are all in Greece. Flavia Gemina and her friends are sta
ying in an hostel in Corinth, when, one night, they hear some yells from Aristo's and Captain Geminus's rooms. When they arrive there they see that Captain Geminus has been stabbed and their tutor Aristo has a bloody knife in his hands. Flavia, seeing her father lying in a pool of blood, faints, so she doesn't see that her father is still alive. Helen, the landlady, realizes and after making two of her slaves bring Aristo to the authorities, she calls the doctor Mordecai. The next morning they discover that Aristo has escaped, so the four friends and a sailor begin pursuing him. They will need all their skill to catch Aristo and understand his reason for stabbing Captain Geminus: if you want to know how this book ends, read it!
By Michelle MagorianThis book has many different stories. The nicest one is "No Sweat". Mark is at the swimming pool, because he has to do a contest, in which he will swim one hundred laps, and his two friends fifty each. Mark looks at his opponents: four youths with a coach and an old woman. Mark dives in the pool and begins swimming. He sees that the four youths are doing only fifty laps each, and he feels very superior. When he is at ninety laps, and still doesn't see his friends coming, he begins to preoccupy. When he finishes his hundred, his lap-counter and Joan, the old woman, spur him on, telling him to go on until is friends come, or his laps will be annulled, and he squalified. Only after fifty more laps he realises that his friends will not come, and had never ment coming. So, he is spurred on by his anger and by Joan's support. He finishes and goes to spur Joan, that is still swimming, alone. 
