The Time-Travelling Cat and the Roman Eagle

by JuliaJarman (Author)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $4.99

  As with the two previous Time-travelling cat novels, there are two strands to this. In the contemporary part of the novel, Topher is settling into a new life in Chichester, a city with ancient Roman links. He becomes fascinated by a tile from Ancient Rome he sees in a museum which has a cat's footprint on it. [factually accurate, it's in Reading Museum]. But he's being bullied at school by a boy who used to live in the house that Topher's parents have bought. In the timeslip element of the story, Topher meets up with Marcus, the son of Cassius the tilemaker and he discovers that it is, in fact, the time-travelling cat's pawprint on the tile. Marcus's elder brother is a bully and it is he who steals the symbol of power of the Roman Army - the eagle. Marcus and Topher have to get it back...before Topher can return to his own time.

• Used

  Paperback
  2007

  $3.29

  Topher Hope is on the move again. When his devoted cat, Ka, leaves a computer message saying she has gone to CA;;LLevA he follows her to a Romano-British settlement in AD 79. Ka is happy among the cat-adoring conquerors and their central heating! Topher, now a British boy, apprenticed to a Roman mosaic maker, has mixed loyalties. When the eagle, symbol of Roman power, disappears from the forum, threatening the fragile peace, Topher begins a desperate search. Can he find it and save his Roman friend, Marcus, from the Druid's murderous sickle? In this adventure, Topher needs all the amazing powers of the time-travelling cat.