We use cookies to make your experience better. To comply with the new e-Privacy directive, we need to ask for your consent to set the cookies. Learn more.
Publication Date: 16 Jun 2016 |
---|
Publisher: SPCK Publishing |
Words: 30000 |
Page Count: 160 |
Author: Kathy Lee |
ISBN-13: 9780281076352, 9780281076369 |
Rome in Flames
The second in the action-packed Tales of Rome series for younger readers
In stock
ISBN-13
9780281076352-grouped
Summary of Rome in Flames
At the start of book 2 in the Tales of Rome series, we find 13-year-old Bryn working a baker's shop in Rome but still dreaming of returning to his British homeland. Nero has been emperor for ten years and many fear him. Nero particularly dislikes Christians, who worship their own God instead of the emperor, and has had some arrested and killed. A great fire breaks out in the city, and Bryn and his friends escape to the outskirts, to the home of a rich slave-trader, Septimus. Bryn returns to the city to see the damage and finds a city in ruins. However, he also sees members of Nero's own Praetorian Guard setting fire to houses. Rumours fly that the Emperor has had the fire started deliberately in order to clear ground to build a grand new palace, but others blame the Christians. Bryn is amongst those arrested. Nero wants to round up a hundred Christians and have them set alight as a mighty spectacle. Will Bryn and his friends survive?
Press Reviews
I am 7 years old and I just read this amazing book about a boy who has been captured and taken to Rome as a slave. It is full of adventure and I learnt a lot of facts about Rome. I enjoyed it so much that I've just started the second book in the series. - Amazon review
I enjoyed this book so much that I read it in 3 hours. Kathy Lee's books are amazing and I would recommend them to anyone.
I bought all the books in the series. My son (aged 11) said they were all very exciting and he read each one in a day.