Mark London Williams’ Danger Boy series has been garnering rave reviews, and may be just the ticket to get school-age kids excited about reading.
Best of all, the first book in the series, Ancient Fire: Danger Boy Episode One is currently FREE! All three of the other books in the series are currently on offer at bargain prices, and they’re all very well-reviewed too.
Ancient Fire: Danger Boy Episode One (4.5/5 stars, ages 9 and up, currently FREE)
The year is 2019 and a secret government agency is forcing Eli Sands’ dad to continue with his time-travel experiments, even though Eli’s mom has just disappeared in one. Then Eli himself demonstrates an unexpected ability to travel through time. Now he has a ridiculous new code name and a gravely important mission. With the help of new friends – Clyne, an intelligent dinosaur from an alternate reality, and Thea, a girl scientist from ancient Egypt – Eli must investigate a deadly disease, search for his mother, and stay alive.
School Library Journal says:
“…Eli is accidentally sent back to the ancient city of Alexandria in the year 415 C.E. where a riot is taking place…Add to this mix a plague to be cured, someone who just might be a ghost dropping cryptic hints, and a chase through Alexandria’s necropolis, and you have the first book in what looks to be a fast-paced and exciting series.”
Dragon Sword: Danger Boy Episode Two (4/5 stars, ages 9 and up, currently priced at $2.99)
Eli Sands’ time-traveling talent has led him to his missing mother’s location: San Francisco, 1941.
But the U.S. has just entered World War II, and Margarite Sands won’t return home until she’s sure the secret of time travel is safe from the Nazis.
Once again on the frontline of danger, Eli and his companions, Clyne and Thea, pursue an enemy agent back through time.
With the help of new allies, King Arthur and Merlin, they must do whatever it takes to keep the legendary sword Excalibur from falling into hands intent on one purpose – world domination.
Trail of Bones: Danger Boy Episode Three (4.5/5 stars, ages 9 and up, currently priced at 99 cents)
Fresh from a dangerous mission, Eli Sands and his friends Clyne and Thea are thrown into nineteenth-century America after an accident with their time-travel vessel. Clyne is stranded alone in hostile territory, while Thea and Eli pop into the beginning of the famed Lewis and Clark expedition. After Thea is mistaken for an escaped slave and taken into custody, Eli joins the expedition in the hopes of finding Clyne, rescuing Thea, and heading home. While trying to regroup and escape, Eli and his friends make alarming discoveries about their stumble into 1804. Will their time-travel accident change the course of history?
City of Ruins: Danger Boy Episode Four (4.5/5 stars, ages 9 and up, currently priced at 99 cents)
After another close call, Eli Sands is back in San Francisco in 2020. The bad news is that he and his friends, Clyne and Thea, are being held captive by the government agency DARPA.
Since their last foray into the Fifth Dimension, history has been unraveling, the deadly slow pox is spreading fast, and DARPA wants to send Eli back in time to ancient Jerusalem.
But Eli and crew discover a city in ruins from a Babylonian invasion and an angry mob ready to stone them. Will Danger Boy and company ever find their way home again?
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