Tanaka, Shelley.

The buried city of Pompeii : what it was like when Vesuvius exploded / by Shelley Tanaka ; illustrations by Greg Ruhl ; diagrams and maps by Jack McMaster ; historical consultation by Elizabeth Lyding Will ; photographs by Peter Christopher. - 1st ed. - New York : Toronto, Ont. : Hyperion ; Madison Press, c1997. - 48 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 24 x 29 cm.

"An I was there book"--P. opp. t.p.

Uses a fictionalized account of the life of the steward of an important estate to describe the ancient Italian city of Pompeii and what happened to it during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.

ISBN: 0786802855 0590123769 (Scholastic/Madison Press pbk.)

LCCN: 96049294 /AC/r98

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Excavations (Archaeology)--Juvenile literature.--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city)

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Italy--Antiquities--Juvenile literature.
Pompeii (Extinct city)--Juvenile literature.
Vesuvius (Italy)--Juvenile literature.--Eruption, 79
Pompeii (Extinct city)
Vesuvius (Italy)--Eruption, 79.

LC Class. No.: DG70.P7 / T28 1997

Dewey Class. No.: 937/.7