About this ebook
Then Father finally comes home, but he is not the tall soldier in the golden breastplate that Paulus remembers. War has changed him. He has seen magnificent cities and now dreams of selling the farm to find fortune in Rome.
For Paulus, leaving means saying goodbye to everything he knows. But Father is the head of the family, and when he decides to move, Paulus has no choice but to follow.
In Rome, the streets are noisy and crowded. School means learning the laws of Rome instead of lessons at home with old Adolphe. The apartment is tiny and there is no place for the animals Paulus loves so dearly.
How will one boy hold on to what matters most, when everything around him has changed?
A Roman Tale of 123 B.C.E. brings ancient Rome to life through the eyes of a young hero navigating family, change, and what it really means to belong.
About the author
Julie Laing BA (History Major) is a writer of children's historical fiction and non-fiction.
She is the mother of four girls: Gemma, Kate, Tess and Amelia ranging in age from 8 to 17. She writes and researches as she commutes by train to Sydney from the Central Coast. In her stories she aims to convey a sense of what it would have been like living day to day in other eras and is especially fascinated by Ancient history and the Roman and Greek periods.
Julie Laing has spent many hours encouraging readers in her daughter's primary school and enjoys playing and listening to music with her family in any spare time she has.
