When he takes a family vacation to Mexico City, Tommy Hopps is just a normal, fourteen-year-old kid — but that’s all about to change.
Sleeping soundly in his family’s hotel room, Tommy is awoken by a ghostly presence: a threadbare pirate. When the unusual intruder attacks his parents, Tommy fights back ... and gets transported to the Aztec Empire in the year 1521.
He finds himself all alone in a strange world. Bizarrely, a few Aztecs seem to recognize him — as someone else. Pursued by warriors, shape-shifting creatures, and a sorceress who claims to be his wife, Tommy must rely on himself to survive while searching for a way to return to the present.
Can he return to his own time to save his parents? Why was he taken back in time to witness an ancient civilization soon to be destroyed? And could there be more to his identity than he himself knows?
Genre: time travel thriller for intelligent middle-grade readers.
Stunning illustrations by Jesse 2 Saints.
Sleeping soundly in his family’s hotel room, Tommy is awoken by a ghostly presence: a threadbare pirate. When the unusual intruder attacks his parents, Tommy fights back ... and gets transported to the Aztec Empire in the year 1521.
He finds himself all alone in a strange world. Bizarrely, a few Aztecs seem to recognize him — as someone else. Pursued by warriors, shape-shifting creatures, and a sorceress who claims to be his wife, Tommy must rely on himself to survive while searching for a way to return to the present.
Can he return to his own time to save his parents? Why was he taken back in time to witness an ancient civilization soon to be destroyed? And could there be more to his identity than he himself knows?
Genre: time travel thriller for intelligent middle-grade readers.
Stunning illustrations by Jesse 2 Saints.
