This is volume 72 in Historical Stories .

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 46 pages in this book. This book was published 1997 by Hachette Children's Group .

Geoffrey Trease is best known as a writer of children's historical fiction. His thrilling, meticulously researched stories were pioneering in their use of female as well as male characters, and their sense of justice and fairness. He died in 1998.