When the Pirates, a gang of young boys in the small town of Timpetill, become too rowdy, the adults decide to discipline them by leaving the town in the middle

Three Australian children, adrift on a rubber raft, are cast ashore in a strange land of tiny people.

The purchase of a slave for their teacher leads a group of schoolboys in ancient Rome into a dangerous intrigue.

In an effort to save a boy wrongly accused, a group of young friends living in ancient Rome search for the culprit who scrawled graffiti on the temple wall.

"This Dover edition, first published in 2015, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, in 1957"