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Title details for Curses and Smoke by Vicky Alvear Shecter - Available

Curses and Smoke

A Novel of Pompeii

by Vicky Alvear Shecter
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When your world blows apart, what will you hold onto?

TAG is a medical slave, doomed to spend his life healing his master's injured gladiators. But his warrior's heart yearns to fight in the gladiator ring himself and earn enough money to win his freedom.LUCIA is the daughter of Tag's owner, doomed by her father's greed to marry a much older Roman man. But she loves studying the natural world around her home in Pompeii, and lately she's been noticing some odd occurrences in the landscape: small lakes disappearing; a sulfurous smell in the air. . . . When the two childhood friends reconnect, each with their own longings, they fall passionately in love. But as they plot their escape from the city, a patrician fighter reveals his own plans for them — to Lucia's father, who imprisons Tag as punishment. Then an earthquake shakes Pompeii, in the first sign of the chaos to come. Will they be able to find each other again before the volcano destroys their whole world?

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  • Release date

    May 27, 2014

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      • ISBN: 9780545509947

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      • ISBN: 9780545509947
      • File size: 7824 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • ATOS Level: 5.2
    • Lexile® Measure: 720
    • Interest Level: 6-12(MG+)
    • Text Difficulty: 3-4

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  • Kindle Book
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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:5.2
  • Lexile® Measure:720
  • Interest Level:6-12(MG+)
  • Text Difficulty:3-4

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