Magic Tree House Research Guide #14: Ancient Rome and Pompeii: A Nonfiction Comp

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		Magic Tree House Research Guide #14: Ancient Rome and Pompeii: A Nonfiction Comp
		Magic Tree House Research Guide #14: Ancient Rome and Pompeii: A Nonfiction Comp

基本信息·出版社：Random House Books for Young Readers
·页码：128 页
·出版日期：2006年04月
·ISBN：0375832203
·条形码：9780375832208
·版本：第1版
·装帧：平装
·开本：32开 Pages Per Sheet
·丛书名：A Stepping Stone Book(TM)

内容简介 Book Description
What was it like to be a gladiator? How many people died in the destruction of Pompeii? How did Roman children spend their days? Find out the answers to these questions and more in Magic Tree House Research Guide: "Ancient Rome and Pompeii. This is the nonfiction companion to "Vacation Under the Volcano (Magic Tree House #13).


From Booklist
Gr. 2-4. Readers of the Magic Tree House fiction series will find it reassuring to see two familiar characters and a similar series logo on the cover of this nonfiction guide to ancient Rome and Pompeii. Though designed to provide background for Vacation under the Volcano (1998), the book can easily be used on its own. It offers an accessible introduction to the history of Rome and to Pompeii, both as the site of a volcanic disaster and as a wonderfully preserved ancient Roman town with much to show about daily life during the period. Fully illustrated with black-and-white drawings and photos of sites and artifacts, the book concludes with basic tips for doing research using nonfiction books, lists of recommended books, videos, DVDs, software, Internet sites, and museums. Useful for younger researchers. 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Carolyn Phelan

About Magic Tree House series
Magic Tree House is a book series for young children by Mary Pope Osborne. The series features two children, the bookworm Jack and his adventurous and imaginative younger sister Annie, who travel to historical places using a magic tree house. The magic tree house belongs to Morgan Le Fay who, in the series, is King Arthur's sister and a librarian. She uses the magic tree house to gather books from time and space.

Jack and Annie travel by opening a book, pointing at a picture of a place and then wishing that they could go there. The magic tree house then spins around and magically they arrive at the location.

Book Dimension
length: (cm)19.3 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)13.5
作者简介 Mary Pope Osborne grew up in the military, and by the time she was fifteen had lived in Oklahoma, Austria, Florida and four different army posts in Virginia and North Carolina. After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the early 1970's, Mary traveled all over Europe, and spent the first six weeks of her trip living in a cave on the island of Crete. She then joined up with a group of European young people and traveled in rickety vans through sixteen Asian countries, including Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal. She was a bartender, an acting teacher, a waitress, a travel agent, a window dresser, and a medical assistant — all before becoming an author! Now she is the author of many highly acclaimed picture books, early chapter books, middle-grade biographies, and young adult novels. In February 1993, Mary was elected the 27th president of the Author's Guild, the oldest, most established organization for writers in the United States.

Mary and her husband Will spilt their time between an apartment in Greenwich Village, New York and a cabin in Pennsylvania. They own a terrier named Bailey, who sleeps on the top of Mary's desk every day while she writes!