Curses and Smoke: A Novel of Pompeii
by Vicky Alvear Shecter
Tag is a medical slave, doomed to spend his life healing his master's injured gladiators.... read more
- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Adventure
- Historical Fiction
Year Published 2014
Word Count 76,828
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 720L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.2
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 166806
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Volcanoes
- Slavery--Fiction
- Love--Fiction
- Vesuvius (Italy)--Eruption, 79--Fiction
- Pompeii (Extinct city)
- Slavery
- Slaves--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city)--Juvenile fiction
- Volcanoes--Juvenile fiction
- Love stories
- Pompeii (Extinct city)--Fiction
- Gladiators--Fiction
- Pompeii (Extinct city)--Juvenile fiction
- Historical fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure
- Vesuvius (Italy)
- Eruption, 79
- Love
- Juvenile Fiction | Love & Romance
- Italy
- Gladiators
- Vesuvius (Italy)--Eruption, 79--Juvenile fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | Ancient Civilizations
- Gladiators--Juvenile fiction
- Slaves
- Young Adult Fiction
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