Going for Gold

Paperback, Hardback

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Overview

Can you solve the mystery? When friends Phoebe and Leon arrive at Olympia to see the famous Olympic Games of ancient Greece they are excited to see amazing races, great athletes and huge crowds. But when they find secret messages and see strange goings on they know that someone is cheating!

This is the third puzzle adventure book in my British Museum series and once more it has superb pictures from James Weston Lewis. There are puzzles to figure out and codes to crack if the villain is to be stopped – are you up to the challenge? With facts to find out along the way and clues to spot, this is a fun way to discover what the ancient Olympic Games were like.

There is also the challenge of decoding ancient Greek to solve some of the puzzles along the way - the book has a handy fold-out code-cracking guide to help you translate the mysterious words.

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With beautifully detailed artwork by James Weston Lewis, fascinating facts about ancient Greece and a fold-out guide at the back of the book which explains how to read and write ancient Greek and contains an easy-to-use Greek dictionary, this is the perfect book for children who love history and hair-raising adventures.

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Can you solve the mystery? When friends Phoebe and Leon arrive at Olympia to see the famous Olympic Games of ancient Greece they are excited to see amazing races, great athletes and huge crowds. But when they find secret messages and see strange goings on they know that someone is cheating!

This is the third puzzle adventure book in my British Museum series and once more it has superb pictures from James Weston Lewis. There are puzzles to figure out and codes to crack if the villain is to be stopped – are you up to the challenge? With facts to find out along the way and clues to spot, this is a fun way to discover what the ancient Olympic Games were like.

There is also the challenge of decoding ancient Greek to solve some of the puzzles along the way - the book has a handy fold-out code-cracking guide to help you translate the mysterious words.

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Can you solve the mystery? When friends Phoebe and Leon arrive at Olympia to see the famous Olympic Games of ancient Greece they are excited to see amazing races, great athletes and huge crowds. But when they find secret messages and see strange goings on they know that someone is cheating!

This is the third puzzle adventure book in my British Museum series and once more it has superb pictures from James Weston Lewis. There are puzzles to figure out and codes to crack if the villain is to be stopped – are you up to the challenge? With facts to find out along the way and clues to spot, this is a fun way to discover what the ancient Olympic Games were like.

There is also the challenge of decoding ancient Greek to solve some of the puzzles along the way - the book has a handy fold-out code-cracking guide to help you translate the mysterious words.