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Ancient Rome and Pompeii

A Nonfiction Companion to Vacation under the Volcano

Ancient Rome and Pompeii( )
Author: Osborne, Mary Pope
Boyce, Natalie Pope
Compiled by: BookSource Staff,
Series title:Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Ser.
ISBN:978-1-4177-4603-3
Publication Date:Apr 2006
Publisher:Turtleback
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $16.00
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 this Magic Tree House Research Guide

Author Biography
Osborne, Mary Pope (Author)
Mary Pope Osborne was born in Fort Sill, Oklahoma on May 20, 1949. She grew up in a military family, and by the time she was 15 she had lived in Oklahoma, Austria, Florida, and four different army posts in Virginia and North Carolina. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she majored in religion. After graduation, she traveled around Europe and Asia. Before becoming an author, she worked as a window dresser, a medical assistant, a Russian travel consultant, a waitress, an acting teacher, a bartender, and an assistant editor for a children's magazine.

Her first book, Run, Run as Fast as You Can, was published in 1982. She is the author of the Magic Tree House series and the Merlin Missions series. Her husband, actor Will Osborne, helps her write the nonfiction companion series, Magic Tree House Research Guides. Her other books include The Deadly Power of Medusa, Jason and the Argonauts, Haunted Waters, and Moonhorse.

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