Escape by sea
By: by L.S. Lawrence.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780823422173
Subjects: Survival -- Fiction; Sex role -- Fiction; Punic War, 2nd, 218-201 B.C. -- Fiction; Sea stories
Genres: Fiction.
Description: When the city of Carthage falls to the Romans during the Punic Wars, Sara, the fifteen-year-old daughter of a Carthaginian senator, must gather her grief-stricken father and take to the seas, where, with only with a meager cargo to trade, her healing skills, her wits, and her courage, Sara must face a life wildly different from anything she thought possible.