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I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii, AD 79

(I Survived #10)

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The beast beneath the mountain is restless...

No one in the bustling city of Pompeii worries when the ground trembles beneath their feet. The beast under the mountain Vesuvius, high above the city, wakes up angry sometimes -- and always goes back to s... MoreThe beast beneath the mountain is restless...

No one in the bustling city of Pompeii worries when the ground trembles beneath their feet. The beast under the mountain Vesuvius, high above the city, wakes up angry sometimes -- and always goes back to sleep.But Marcus is afraid. He knows something is terribly wrong -- and his father, who trusts science more than mythical beasts, agrees. When Vesuvius explodes into a cloud of fiery ash and rocks fall from the sky like rain, will they have time to escape -- and survive the epic destruction of Pompeii? Less

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Average rating 4.08  ·  3,674 ratings  ·  353 reviews

rated it it was amazing
over 3 years ago

Shelves: read-audiobooks-2018 , backlist-read-2018
Marcus is a slave in ancient Rome. His father has been sold as a gladiator. As Marcus misses his father and feels afraid of the strange earth tremors that have been shaking Pompeii. he wonders how the other residents of the city can just ignore the shaking, continuing on wit ...more

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about 5 years ago

Shelves: children-s-chapter-books
I read this with my 8 year old son and thought it was a great mix of interest and learning. The story takes place in Pompeii leading up to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79 A.D. The reader learns about Roman times, a period of great learning and discovery. It was ...more

rated it it was amazing
3 months ago

The beast beneath the mountain is restless...I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii, AD 79 (I Survived, #10) by Lauren Tarshis covers the massive destruction of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the complete destruction of Pompeii. No one in the bustling city of Pompeii worr ...more

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over 5 years ago

I read this book with one of my students and we both really enjoyed it. He is going into 5th grade and found this book fascinating. He even rented an educational movie on it and watched it over and over again because this book was so good!

I highly suggest this book, even to ...more

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about 1 year ago

Shelves: library
Written for middle school students, this is the fact-filled, exciting story of Marcus, a slave-boy of that age and his father, Tata [Latin for Daddy], and how they escape the Vesuvius eruption of 79 A.D. and head for Rome. The author also works into the story details of Pomp ...more

rated it really liked it
over 2 years ago

Shelves: children-s , dystopia , history , how-to , non-fiction , science
What a fun little book! A short work of historical fiction, I Survived: The Destruction of Pompeii, AD 79 is an elegantly written, young adult novelette with a very tight focus.

The author obviously did her research. The afterward includes a Q and A on related topics ranging ...more

rated it really liked it
almost 3 years ago

Read this with my daughter, these books are great for introducing children to historical events and catastrophes. The main characters, kids themselves, are resilient and, as the titles say, SURVIVE through life and death situations - good inspiration for young readers to fin ...more

rated it it was amazing
almost 2 years ago

Shelves: read-2020
These are really great kids books, dont waste any time getting to the action, have good characters but rely on just a few and of course the best part, its historical lol and its less of a "oh what fun and magical this is!" than magic tree house and much more realistic compar ...more

rated it did not like it
over 3 years ago

Personal Response:
I hated the book The Destruction Of Pompeii , because it related to the Odyssey. I did not like the Odyssey, so this was not the book for me. As the reader I did like the other books from the author, Lauren Tarshis, but not this one because of the topic.

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Book details

Paperback, 112 pages
Published August 26th 2014 by Scholastic Inc.
ISBN
0545459397 (ISBN13: 9780545459396)
Edition language
English
Original title
I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii, AD 79

About this author

Lauren Tarshis
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Lauren Tarshis often wonders how she came to spend most of her waking moments thinking about disasters, as the author of the children's historical fiction series "I Survived." Each book takes readers into the heart of history's most thrilling and terrifying events, including the sinking of the Titanic, the Shark Attacks of 1916, Hurricane Katrina, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the San Francisco ear ...more

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Vendors cursed as their baskets of fruit and vegetables toppled. A bamboo birdcage fell and burst open, scattering a flock of tiny white birds into the dusty air. Barrels rolled wildly through the streets, gushing wine as red as blood.
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