My Family and Other Romans: a laugh-out-loud funny time-travel adventure for fans of Loki

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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.

Please put in the notes your child first name and class number so we can deliver it to the correct person. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. On top of meeting mythical monster and gods, she finds more than she bargained for - family she didn’t even know she had. With Basting’s wonderfully quirky sense of humour, you get a book that will surprise and delight young readers. 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.Suddenly Silvia finds herself half-schoolgirl, half-goddess with the fate of her entire family resting upon her. 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. A laugh-out-loud funny family caper full of excitemnt and heart: perfect for fans of Who Let the Gods Out ! And wait until you meet the rest of her family: her uncle’s raising an army, her mum’s a warrior goddess and her dad .

And wait until you meet the rest of her her uncle’s raising an army, her mum’s a warrior goddess and her dad . 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. As an amazing adventure begins to unfold, Livi isn’t sure how to decide what to do next, especially as there could be far-reaching consequences whatever happens.What happens when you’re sucked into Ancient Rome, find out that some FAMOUS names are actually related to you and YOUVE got to save the world? She learns to be brave and follow her instincts to make the right decisions that will save the world- past and present. Whilst re-enacting a Roman battle at Hadrian’s Wall Silvia’s dad slips through a portal, dragging the whole family back to ancient Rome. Livi's adventures straddle the modern world of cosplay and Ancient Rome - fans of Horrible Histories will LARP this up (see what I did there? 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.

A laugh-out-loud funny family caper full of excitement and heart: perfect for fans of Loki, Horrible Histories and Who Let the Gods Out? I really loved how she found out the she was a demo-god and had some very famous Roman mythology characters for brothers and sisters. There was such attention to detail throughout, showing just how much time and effort the author put into creating this book. 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.Marie Basting has pulled off a comic but poignant read with a great structure and laugh out loud lines - one of my faves: families that slay together, stay together! 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. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Following her dad’s battle re-enactment, Silvia de Luca ends up having to follow him back in time to Ancient Rome.