Jane Louise Curry, Children's Books Author
  Getty Publishing An exciting picture-book retelling of a true-life adventure from two and a half thousand years ago! During a war between Rome and the great Etruscan king Porsena, Cloelia, a young Roman, is among the many hostages held by the king in his camp across the river from Rome... and she doesn't like it one little bit! One evening she climbs to the top of a fig tree, and what she sees gives her an idea. That night and the next day she passes word to the other girls in the camp: Tonight. In the shadow behind the grain store. One by one. Bare feet. Nothing that jangles... After midnight, when the camp is asleep and no lights burn except for sentry fires, Cloelia and thirty-nine other girls slip from their beds and...  Cloelia spies out a way to escape the Etruscan army's camp!  << TO ORDER, CLICK HERE |
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