when A Mysterious Envelope Arrives For Jake Ransom, He And His Older Sister, Kady, Are Plunged Into A Gripping Chain Of Events. An Artifact Found By Their Parents On The Expedition From Which They Never Returned Leads Jake And Kady To A Strange World Inhabited By A Peculiar Mix Of Long-lost Civilizations, A World That May Hold The Key To Their Parents' Disappearance.
but Even As They Enter The Gate To This Extraordinary Place, Savage Grackyls Soar Across The Sky, Diving To Attack. Jake's New Friends, The Pretty Mayan Girl Marika And The Roman Pindor, Say The Grackyls Were Created By An Evil Alchemist The Skull King. And As Jake Struggles To Find A Way Home, It Becomes Obvious That What The Skull King Wants Most Is Jake And Kady Dead Or Alive.
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this Exciting Time-travel Adventure Opens Three Years After Jake Ransom's Archeologist Parents Have Disappeared In The Yucatán, Leaving Him And His Sister, Kady, Nothing But Their Journals And A Mayan Coin, Broken In Half. The Siblings Receive An Invitation To Attend An Exhibition Of Mayan Antiquities At The British Museum, And Are Soon After Catapulted Into The Prehistoric Past Where Ancient Mayans, Romans, Egyptians, Vikings And Even Neanderthals Have Joined Together To Do Battle With The Skull King, A Creature So Evil That He Only Appears Wrapped In Shadows, As If The Darkness Were Scared Of What Lay Hidden At Its Heart And Attempted To Hide The Horror From The World. Jake, An Indiana Jones In The Making, And Kady, A Cheerleader Who Learns To Channel Her Inner Viking, Fight The Skull King To A Draw, Discovering Clues About Their Missing Parents. In This Series Opener, Rollins (the Last Oracle) Presents A Wide Range Of Interesting Historical Information While Telling A Rollicking Good Story That Should Please A Wide Range Of Readers-and Maybe Even Some Of His Adult Fans. Ages 10-up. (may)copyright © Reed Business Information, A Division Of Reed Elsevier Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Categories:
- Children's Books
- Geography & Cultures
- Travel
- Geography & Cultures
Publisher : HarperCollins
Author : Rollins, James
Language : English
Edition : Illustrated
Published :2009-04-28
Number Of Pages : 416
Binding : Hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0061473790
ISBN-13 : 9780061473791
Item weight : 1.1 lb
Dimensions : 1.5 in x 5.8 in x 8.4 in
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