The Roman Mysteries series (17 books) features the rag-tag young detective squad of Flavia Gemina, a Jewish boy named Jonathan, Nubia the African slave girl, and Lupus, the mute beggar boy.  The mysteries themselves are fun, fast-paced adventures for elementary/ middle-schoolers.  The genius of them—from a teacher’s perspective— is how much information about Roman culture pervades the stories.  Lawrence, a pedigreed classicist herself with classics degrees from Berkeley and Cambridge and a MA in Jewish Studies from University College, London, taught Latin to school children for a number of years.  The Roman Mysteries are filled with detailed, accurate references to Roman religion, mythology, politics, and society-at-large.  Each book features a glossary of terms used and there are engaging maps of ancient Rome and the outlying areas that your mystery lover will pour over as he or she investigates the crime.  These books are a gift to the world of classical education.  —Sarah Klitenic Wear

* For further information on the Our Mythical Childhood Survey, please refer to the website of the project “Our Mythical Childhood” [link: http://omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/], led by Prof. Katarzyna Marciniak at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales,” University of Warsaw, Poland, with the participation of Bar Ilan University, University of New England, University of Roehampton, University of Yaoundé 1, and other affiliated scholars, within the funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (grant agreement No 681202).