The cover has light shelf wear. The binding is tight the spine is not cracked. The pages are clean, no underlining, writing, or coloring. 📚 Check out my shop for more I Survived & chapter books! Synopsis | No one in the bustling city of Pompeii worries when the ground trembles beneath their feet. The beast under the mountain Vesuvius, high above the city, wakes up angry sometimes -- and always goes back to sleep. But Marcus is afraid. He knows something is terribly wrong -- and his father, who trusts science more than mythical beasts, agrees. When Vesuvius explodes into a cloud of fiery ash and rocks fall from the sky like rain, will they have time to escape -- and survive the epic destruction of Pompeii? —From back of the book b-222.1