Ring of Fire
Book 1 of Century
Language: English
Action & Adventure Adventure Ancient Antiquities Childrens Europe Fantasy Fiction General Good & Evil Good and evil History Italy Juvenile Fiction Mysteries & Detective Stories Mystery Mystery Fiction People & Places Philosophy Rome Rome (Italy) Social Issues Travel Values & Virtues Young Adult
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Published: Oct 17, 2006
Description:
Every hundred years, four kids from four cities must save the world .
Rome, December 29.
A mix-up with their reservations forces Harvey from New York, Mistral from Paris, and Sheng from Shanghai to share a room with the hotel owner’s daughter, Elettra. The four kids discover an amazing coincidence—they all have birthdays on February 29, Leap Day. That night, a strange man gives them a briefcase and asks them to take care of it until he returns. Soon afterward, the man is murdered.
The kids open the briefcase. In it they find a series of clues that take them all over Rome, through dusty libraries and dark catacombs, in search of the elusive Ring of Fire, an ancient object so powerful that legend says even a Roman emperor couldn’t control it.
In the first book of the Century quartet, Italian author P. D. Baccalario begins a mystery that will take four cities and four extraordinary kids to solve.