To ensure accessibility Hodder & Stoughton has worked with The Basic Skills Agency on "Livewire", a series of reading books with a teenage or adult interest level for those with a reading age below 10. Livewire Investigates is a series of thrilling accounts of dream careers, sports and extreme sports, disasters and catastrophes, strange mysteries and crimes and the natural world. A gladiator's life was a short one. These men and women would fight to the death. They would even fight wild animals - lions, bears and tigers. Gladiators: were they victims or heroes?

 

This book is part of a book series called Livewire Investigates .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

This book was published 2004 by Hodder Education .

Brandon Robshaw is the author of 21 children's novels and over 60 educational books. His most recent children's novel, The Big Wish , was published by Chicken House in 2015. It was shortlisted for the James Reckitt Hull Children's Book Award 2016