Thieves of Ostia/Roman Mysteries?

[dragons in the flower bed]

My seven-year-old picked the first of these up and has been reading it with a history book handbook to look stuff up. I don't really want to read it also. Is there anything I should know about it? Specifically, I'm worried because my son is sensitive to ethics issues; it's very easy to convince him that lying is always okay just by letting him see a character get out of trouble by doing it once. How are the main characters in this series?

[AngieW in Texas]

Thieves of Ostia is the only book in the series that I've read. My library had the 1st book and then the 3rd-5th books and it was really obvious that you needed to read them in order when we tried to read the 3rd book.

Thieves of Ostia was a very good book, but we read it back when we were studying ancient times and that was 3 years ago.

From what I can remember, only "bad" characters are doing "bad" things in the book.

The main characters are good kids.

Maybe these websites will help?
http://www.romanmysteries.com/books/historythieves.htm
http://goodtoread.org/initial/T/thieves-of-ostia-the

[dragons in the flower bed]

Maybe these websites will help?
http://www.romanmysteries.com/books/historythieves.htm
http://goodtoread.org/initial/T/thieves-of-ostia-the

Thank you!

[JumpedIntoTheDeepEndFirst]

I read the first few last year. As memory serves the characters (major and minor) may appear to do something contrary to their nature but in the end the bad guys are shown to have lied/pretended to be good but are really not and the questions raised about the good guys always have an explaination that shows how their curious behavior was really ok. I suspect that without some of these twists you wouldn't have as much character development for the main characters and would loose the mystery element. They were a fun add on to the Ancients.