Detectives in Togas by Henry Winterfeld
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Book Reviews of Detectives in Togas
Book Review: Best historical fiction for children ever!
Summary: 5 Stars
This delightful mystery set in the time of ancient Rome gives in depth details of the life of a Roman without your child realizing they are reading about historical culture!! It has all the elements of a good book - suspenseful mystery, vivid imagery, intriguing characters, humor, friendship, enemies, and danger.
Young students of a Greek schoolteacher have an argument that culminates with a mean statement written on a student's wax tablet. When that same statement is found written in red paint on the emperor's temple the next morning, their young friend finds himself in serious trouble. But are things as they seem? If you are like me, you won't figure this one out 'til the very end!
Book Review: Fun Book to Read
Summary: 5 Stars
Detectives in Togas is a mystery story full of great suspense!It is about a group of boys in the time of ancient Rome. Someone wrote something terrible on the temple of Minerva's wall , and it seems their friend Rufus did it. But, did he really desecrate the temple? Read the book to find out as a series of amazing events unfold; the boy's teacher gets attacked, they find an important clue, and the bad guy might just get away.
I really love this book because it is so exciting and suspenseful. I highly recommend this book to anyone.It's a great read-a-loud book.
Book Review: the detectives are here to stay
Summary: 5 Stars
Rufus did right CAIUS IS A DUMBBELL on a wax tablet and hung it up on the wall, but he did not inscribe it on Minerva's temple or tie up his teacher and stuff him in the closet or run away in guilt. But it seems to everyone that he did (doesn't it always happen in books?) and now Marcus, Antonius, Flavius, Julius, and another one whose name I have forgotten has to set everything right. And how do they start? A visit to the soothsayer and a rich man should prove interesting enough.Book Review: Let's read it again!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
We love this book. There are lots of exciting parts. We liked to read the book everyday and beg our mom, "Please, please, please, read just one more chapter?!?!" There are heroes and villains, excitement, fights, disguises, and clues. We had to think about what was happening but it was impossible to figure out the mystery. The ending is good because the bad guy, Lukos, gets what he deserves - he dies. (This review is submitted by two 8 year old girls and a 10 year old boy.)Book Review: As good as I remembered it
Summary: 5 Stars
Believe it or not, I first read Detectives in Togas when I was 9. That was a long, long time ago. I was thrilled when I found the paperback re-issue in the bookstore and bought it for my daughter. She is only 5, but loves history already. We are having a wonderful time, with me reading it to her and answering her questions about Roman history as best I can. I'm better with Egyptian and medieval history than Roman, but I manage.