Romeo & Juliet

By William Shakespeare
Romeo and Mercutio are two very close friends. They are both about fourteen, but Romeo is a Montague, and Mercutio is of the Prince's family. Still, even though they come from two different families, they both hate the Capulets fiercely. Mercutio is a fierce street-fighter, and loves to joke about people; but he is also a dreamer, and he always tells his friends about his dreams. Romeo, instead, doesn't like to fight as much as Mercutio, and he loves to be in love and suffer for love. In fact, before Juliet, he loved Rosaline, a nun. Romeo and Mercutio are good friends, but Mercutio feels betrayed when Romeo tells Tybalt to make peace, because Mercutio doesn't know that Romeo and Tybalt are related, since Romeo married Juliet. Also, Mercutio gets killed by Tybalt under Romeo's arm, because Romeo was trying to separate them. So, their friendship is broken when Mercutio, right before dying, curses the Montagues (Romeo's family) and the Capulets (Juliet's family) saying: "A plague o'both your houses."

The Sirens of Surrentum

By Caroline Lawrence
The eleventh book in the Roman Mysteries series is "The Sirens of Surrentum". Flavia, Jonathan, Nubia and Lupus are invited to Villa Limona by Pulchra, who is preoccupied because someone is trying to poison her mother. When they get there, they find out that Pulchra has invited the boy that Flavia will be betrothed to, and also three young men and three young women, to try to discover if they were the ones who tried to poison Pulchra's mother. After many adventures, the kids discover that Pulchra's mother was trying to commit suicide because her husband, Pollus Felix, was unfaithful, but she had built up a resistance to the poison. Pulchra's mother had taken poison when those people were in the house because her husband had been flirting with the women and the men had reminded her of her previous husband, which had died many years before.

Stormbreaker

By Anthony Horowitz
The protagonist of this novel is named Alex Rider. He is fourteen, and lives in London with an American woman, that takes care of the house in exchange for a place where to live, and he has an uncle that is a banker and always travels. One day the bank calls Alex and tells him that his uncle, Ian, died. The funeral takes place a week later, and many people come. At a certain point, as a man is opening the door for the bank manager, Alex notices that he has a gun. So, he decides to investigate, even because the things that were in Ian's studio have all disappeared, and Alex has seen the truck that brought them away, and the writing on it. So he goes to the corresponding junkyard and finds his uncle's car, and sees that someone has shot Ian. If you want to know how the story ends, read the book!