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Article: The Thieves of Ostia.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Audiobook Review)
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- July 1, 2004
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THE THIEVES OF OSTIA. Caroline Lawrence. 2001/2004. Read by Kim Hicks. 4 tapes. 4 hrs. Listening Library. 0-8072-2341-7 $26.00. Cardboard; plot, author, reader notes. J
Caroline Lawrence's first book is also the first in a series called The Roman Mysteries. Flavia Gemina is a young girl who lives in Ostia with her father, a sea captain who is away from home for weeks at a time, allowing her and her young friends to get into danger and solve mysteries. Flavia teams up with Jonathan, a Jewish boy from next door, whose father is a doctor. Flavia buys a young African slave girl named Nubia and takes in an orphaned beggar boy named Lupus, who cannot speak because ...