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Wanted!
  • Published: 1 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9781862305199
  • Imprint: Red Fox
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $19.99

Wanted!

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1 Nov 2010
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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: $19.99
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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