Silvia loves her dad and joins in with all his role-play adventures with great enthusiasm, enjoying his company and expertise as she does so. But then something magical happened and Marie finally came to realise that girls like her can do anything they want.

I am a voracious reader and used to be a learning support assistant in a senior school for eight years before leaving to home school my now adult daughter. Hugely entertaining and educational with lively illustrations and a fun glossary, this is the perfect read for kids studying the Romans in KS2. I raced through this like a runaway chariot - huge fun, loads of larping laughs and riotous Roman mayhem. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.If your child is at one of the schools, please DO NOT select any postage as the books are delivered to the schools on the day. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. There was such attention to detail throughout, showing just how much time and effort the author put into creating this book.

It highlights how talents don’t just have to be academic or athletic to be worth pursuing and how everyone has something they’re good at.Silvia’s dad loves re-enacting Roman battles on Hadrian’s Wall – unfortunately, he’s stumbled through a one-way portal back to ancient Rome and dragged the whole family along for the ride. Silvia's Dad loves re-enacting Roman battles on Hadrian’s Wall – unfortunately, he’s stumbled through a one-way portal back to ancient Rome and dragged the whole family along for the ride. Suddenly Silvia finds herself half-schoolgirl, half-goddess with the fate of her entire family resting upon her.

My Family and Other Romans by Marie Basting you might also like: our reviews of Circus Maximus: Rider of the Storm by Annelise Gray, Vita and the Gladiator by Ally Sherrick, Adventures in Time: Alexander the Great By Dominic Sandbrook, Our Beautiful Game by Lou Kuenzler, Time School: We Will Honour Them by Nikki Young and Darwin’s Dragons by Lindsay Galvin.A fun and funny journey through the Roman Empire and some of its better and lesser-known gods and goddesses, My Family and Other Romans catapults the reader into the enthusiastic world of modern-day historical re-enactment. Silvia Fortuna Juno De Luca (Livi) has a name to amaze but that’s only half her story as she’s about to find out. When she’s not writing funny fiction for children, you’ll find her supporting other girls and boys to follow their writing dreams. When her dad disappears just before the opening of his biggest LARP project so far, Livi finds herself looking for him in circumstances that almost defy belief.