Toby Tucker is an orphan with a secret. He owns a chest filled with torn paper, and a strange message: Piece your family tree together and you'll find out who you are and when you come from. When he manages to put together a name, the most incredible magic happens. Toby travels back in time and becomes his ancestor! He's already been to Ancient Egypt and Greece. This time Toby hurtles back to Ancient Rome, into Titus' life, and finds himself sludging through a sewer in search of riches. I waded further in, not looking down in case I saw something nasty float past. Then I thought: Stupid fool! How will you find treasure unless you look down? The smell was getting to me. If it ponged here, I wondered how much worse the stink would be where a drain emptied into the sewer. I'm not giving up, though. No darkness, no stink will stop me treasure-hunting...This could be the way to freedom - and Britannia!
This is Book 3 in the Toby Tucker S. Series. See all Toby Tucker S. books here.
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Valerie Wilding is an established writer of historical fiction and non fiction. She is a regular contributor to Scholastic's My Story series (Highway Girl, Road to War, Bloody Tower, To Kill a Queen) and Boudicca and her Barmy Army was published in their Dead Famous series. Her own series, The Princess Files, about real princesses, was published by OUP.
More about Valerie WildingMichael studied illustration at Portsmouth University graduating with a first class honours degree. He now works solely on writing and illustrating books for children of all ages. His first picture book was published by Puffin in 2006 and his first fiction series Jake Cake has been shortlisted for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize. Michael loves dogs, c
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