Curses and smoke
Subtitle: a novel of Pompeii
By: Vicky Alvear Shecter
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780545509930
Subjects: Love; Volcanoes; Juvenile fiction; Slavery; Fiction; Eruption, 79; Slaves; Gladiators
Description: Tagus is a medical slave who wants be a gladiator, Lucia is the daughter of Tag's owner and betrothed to an older man, and the two teenagers are in love with each other--but it is the year 79 and soon Vesuvius will alter their lives forever.

Tages, a medical slave who wants to be a gladiator, and Lucia, betrothed to an older man, are in love with each other, but it is the year 79 and soon Vesuvius will alter their lives forever. The plot contains violence.
Notes: Accelerated Reader MG+ 5.2 12 12 166806