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Wanted!
  • Published: 1 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9781862305199
  • Imprint: Red Fox
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $22.00

Wanted!

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1 Aug 2012
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A pacy, exciting adventure through the streets of Ancient Rome for younger readers, with beautiful illustrations that really bring the story to life.

Marcus is a young baker in Ancient Rome, living with his family in the shadow of the murderous Emperor Littleboots. When a slave boy shoves the reins of a sleek, beautiful horse into Marcus's hands seconds before he is killed by a soldier, Marcus knows he's in danger - because the horse is Incitatus, the Emperor's most prized and powerful animal.

Will Marcus find a way to keep Incitatus hidden? Are the rumours of Littleboots's death true - or is it all a trick? And how can Marcus save himself, and his family?

A fast-paced adventure from the winner of both the Whitbread Children's Book Award and the 2005 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.
  • Published: 1 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9781862305199
  • Imprint: Red Fox
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $22.00
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About the author

Kate Thompson

Kate Thompson is an award-winning Irish actor and author, who also writes under the name Kate Beaufoy. She has narrated several of her own audiobooks and is delighted and honoured to be voicing the beloved character of Lola for Penguin Audio. Kate now lives in Perth, WA, where she works as a Yin yoga instructor and is slave to a Burmese cat and two small grandsons.
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Praise for Wanted!

Told in beautiful clear prose, this short novel does not try to emulate the historical fiction published in the Antelope and Gazelle series of 1960s-1980s by such authors as Rosemary Sutcliff, but gives the reader a glimpse of a past era in a different, humorous way

Janet Fisher, Books for Keeps

This is a lovely book, with fine line drawings, the sort you'd be happy to see a boy of eight reading, and I hope it is the beginning of a series

Toby Clements, Daily Telegraph