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    DK Adventures: Clash of the Gladiators

    Part of DK Adventures

    Author Catherine Chambers
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    DK. | DK Children
    On sale May 01, 2014 | 128 Pages | 9781465427410
    Grades 3-7
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    In Clash of the Gladiators, join DK Adventures' exclusive SLIP club (Secret Living In the Past)--a group of young history buffs who belong to a top-secret club that allows them to travel throughout history to any time, any place, through a phone app. This time their journey takes them to Ancient Rome, where the mighty gladiators are getting ready to stage a huge spectacle at the Colosseum. But trouble is stirring at the amphitheater. Will the team manage to foil an evil scheme? More important, will they ever see home again?

    DK Adventures are nonfiction narratives for kids ages 8-11 featuring engaging, action-packed stories that help kids build their skills in vocabulary, grammar, comprehension, and critical thinking while developing a love of reading. With diaries, recipes, poetry, instructions, graphics, or songs, the genre spreads in each DK Adventures title enhance the story and reinforce curriculum learning, while the expansive range of entertaining nonfiction subjects will appeal to boys and girls everywhere.

    Supports the Common Core State Standards.
    Catherine Chambers was born is South Australia and brought up in England. In college, Catherine studied for a degree in African History and Swahili. She loves books and worked in publishing as an editor. For the last 20 years, Catherine has written both fiction and nonfiction children’s books. She really enjoys writing biographies and about history and geography—and likes to turn everything into a story. Catherine has lived in northern Nigeria and Portugal, as well as in Britain. She has learned much from her travels and her three sons. Her other interests include trying to learn languages, visiting art galleries, and sipping coffee at King’s Cross St. Pancras International train station in London, England. View titles by Catherine Chambers

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    In Clash of the Gladiators, join DK Adventures' exclusive SLIP club (Secret Living In the Past)--a group of young history buffs who belong to a top-secret club that allows them to travel throughout history to any time, any place, through a phone app. This time their journey takes them to Ancient Rome, where the mighty gladiators are getting ready to stage a huge spectacle at the Colosseum. But trouble is stirring at the amphitheater. Will the team manage to foil an evil scheme? More important, will they ever see home again?

    DK Adventures are nonfiction narratives for kids ages 8-11 featuring engaging, action-packed stories that help kids build their skills in vocabulary, grammar, comprehension, and critical thinking while developing a love of reading. With diaries, recipes, poetry, instructions, graphics, or songs, the genre spreads in each DK Adventures title enhance the story and reinforce curriculum learning, while the expansive range of entertaining nonfiction subjects will appeal to boys and girls everywhere.

    Supports the Common Core State Standards.

    Author

    Catherine Chambers was born is South Australia and brought up in England. In college, Catherine studied for a degree in African History and Swahili. She loves books and worked in publishing as an editor. For the last 20 years, Catherine has written both fiction and nonfiction children’s books. She really enjoys writing biographies and about history and geography—and likes to turn everything into a story. Catherine has lived in northern Nigeria and Portugal, as well as in Britain. She has learned much from her travels and her three sons. Her other interests include trying to learn languages, visiting art galleries, and sipping coffee at King’s Cross St. Pancras International train station in London, England. View titles by Catherine Chambers

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