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Viking Raiders

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by Chris Blake


  “What’s that ugly thing?” Isis asked.

  Tom racked his brains for the name. He had seen a diagram of one in his history books. “It’s a trebuchet!” he said, suddenly remembering. “They plonk massive boulders into the hammock thingy on the end of the rope and catapult them against the city walls.”

  “The Greeks are planning an invasion,” Isis said, stroking Cleo as she scanned the beach. “So it’s going to be chaos at any moment. We’d better find out where to look for Anubis’s amulet, quick!”

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  First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2013

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  Source ISBN: 9780007514021

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