"Detectives in Togas" - Henry Winterfeld

A fairly simple mystery but a lot of fun picking out all the historical elements mentioned throughout.

Seven sons of highly ranked Romans attend a prestigious school. When a classmate goes too far with a prank, he gets expelled. His revenge on the teacher gets out of hand causing a series of events putting him in jail. Now his classmates must find the real guilty party before their fellow student is shipped off on a slave galley.

Read Also:

David Grimstone's "Gladiator Boy" series.

The Terror Trail by Stewart Ross.

Reads a lot like "The Hardy Boys" by Franklin W. Dixon.

"Ancient Rome: an interactive history" -Rachael Hanel

"interactive" ... Did you see that?! You choose what historical route you take! It's a choose your own adventure.

Well I chose mine: living in Ancient Rome whether as a Roman senator under Julius Caesar, a woman under Nero, or merchant at the close of the Roman empire, there are many different choices you make to determine how you will end up. Most end in death seeing as how it's, I don't know, history! But there are a few ways to retire into obscurity.

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There's a fun series "You Wouldn't Want to Be..." which tells it like it is, and from a contemporary viewpoint. Soon to be read: You Wouldn't Want to Be in a Medieval Dungeon

Jean Fritz's series about the founding of America includes titles such as And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? which puts a personal, first person spin on history. I've read her Shh! We're Writing the Constitution.