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Wanted!

  • Imprint: Red Fox

  • ISBN: 9781862305199

  • Length: 128  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 7mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 96g

  • RRP: £6.99

Wanted!

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.

  • Imprint: Red Fox

  • ISBN: 9781862305199

  • Length: 128  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 7mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 96g

  • RRP: £6.99

Reviews

  • 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

  • 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

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About the Author

Kate Thompson

Kate Thompson is an award-winning journalist, ghost-writer and novelist who has published nine fiction and non-fiction titles. She worked at Pick Me Up magazine for six years and was subsequently named as IPC's 'True Life Writer of the Year' in 2006. Since then, Kate has worked on national newspapers, including the Daily Express and Daily Mail. Her debut novel, Secrets of the Singer Girls, became a Sunday Times bestseller in 2015.

Kate Thompson

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