"Engaging images accompany information about gladiators. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
Decimus Rex and Olu Umbika, still on the run from Slavius Doom, must decide what to do when four of their friends still in captivity are threatened with execution if the runaways do not return.
Joe, Fred, and Sam demonstrate some of their favorite professional wrestling moves, including the "Time Warp Trio Blind Ninja Smackdown," when they are transported to ancient Rome and forced to fight as gladiators in the Colosseum.
Describes the lives of gladiators in the Roman Empire. The readers' choices reveal the historical details of gladiators rebelling with Spartacus, training at a gladiator school in Pompeii, and trying to earn their freedom.
Discusses the Roman Colosseum including why it was built, who built it, how it was constructed, how it has been used, its closure and deterioration, and its repair and restoration.
Discusses aspects of the working life of a Roman gladiator, including recruitment, training, weapons, and tactics, as well as how gladiatorial conflicts reflect the values of their day.
Discusses aspects of the life of Roman gladiators, including recruitment, training, weapons, and tactics, as well as how gladiatorial conflicts reflect the values of their day.
a novel containing intense prolonged sequences of disaster and peril
Haines, Lise
2009
In Massachusetts, eighteen-year-old Lyn, who has grown up in the public eye as the daughter of seven gladiators, wants nothing less than to follow her mother's path, but her only way of avoiding marriage to the warrior who killed her last stepfather may be to face him in the arena.
