How to Live Like a Roman Gladiator

From the Series How to Live Like . . .

  • Interest Level: Grade 3 - Grade 6
  • Reading Level: Grade 4

Meet Felix, captured in Gaul in 180 CE and taken to Rome to train as a gladiator. He’ll show you what it takes to survive these harsh, epic times as he introduces you to:

● gladiator school
● the Coliseum—the largest-ever amphitheater
● battles against lions
● hand-to-hand combat in the arena

Do you have the skills and guts to be a Roman gladiator?

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Interest Level Grade 3 - Grade 6
Reading Level Grade 4
Genre Social Studies
Copyright 2016
Publisher Lerner Publishing Group
Brand Hungry Tomato ®
Imprint Hungry Tomato ®
Language English
Number of Pages 32
Publication Date 2015-08-01
Text Type Informational Fiction
BISACS JNF025020, JNF025000, JNF038000
Dewey 796.80937
Graphics Full-color illustrations
Dimensions 7 x 9
Lexile 880
Guided Reading Level V
ATOS Reading Level 5.3
Accelerated Reader® Quiz 177554
Accelerated Reader® Points 1.0
Features Index, Original artwork, Reviewed, and Table of contents

Author: Anita Ganeri

Anita Ganeri is an award-winning author of children’s books. She has written on a huge variety of subjects, from Vikings to viruses and from Romans to world religions. She lives in England.

Illustrator: Mariano Epelbaum

Mariano Epelbaum was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has worked as an art director and character designer for many films in Argentina and Spain.

Reviews

Publishers Weekly

“[An] irreverent tour of life in the Roman empire.”—Publishers Weekly