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City of Ruins

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By Mark London Williams
Publisher Candlewick Press
City of Ruins
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Danger Boy is back! With the deadly slow pox spreading, the timetraveling trio hurtle back to Jerusalem circa 583 BCE. After another close call, the good news is that Eli Sands, aka Danger Boy, is back in San Francisco in 2020. The bad news is that Eli and his friends, Clyne the evolved dinosaur and Thea the Alexandrian scholar, are being held captive by the government agency DARPA. Since their last foray into the Fifth Dimension, it seems history has been unraveling everywhere, and the deadly slow pox virus is spreading fast. DARPAs plan is for Eli to visit ancient Jerusalem. But Eli and crew discover that the city is in ruins from a Babylonian invasion, and soon an angry mob is ready to stone them. Will Danger Boy and his friends find their way home again?

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53115 words53,115 words
288 pages288 pages
Lexile 810LLexile 810L
Grade 4 to 7Grade 4 to 7
Age 9-12Age 9-12
Published 2007Published 2007

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Book ISBN:

9780763628710

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