Read Ancient Fire (2004)

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Author

Mark London Williams

Genre

Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

Series

danger boy

Rating

3.56 of 5 Votes: 3

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ISBN

0763621528 (ISBN13: 9780763621520)

Language

English

Publisher

candlewick

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Ancient Fire (2004) - Plot & Excerpts

The first Danger Boy book in the series got me hooked right away. I found them (or my mom found them) at the Mount Vernon library when I was about 14 years old. The foil hardback covers instantly intrigued me so I made sure to check out the second book just in case I wanted it that week. Ancient Fire brings our time traveling heroes Eli, Thea and Thea and Clyne together for the first time. The historical set is the burning of the library of Alexandria, a moment in history abhorred by book lovers everywhere. It deals with the real life reactions of youth and adults to fantastically situations. It is a one of a kind children's time travel adventure novel. The read level makes it suitable for beginning chapter book readers and the plot makes it suitable for all ages. It makes you laugh and is a real page turner. My youngest sister read it and loved it just as much as I did!(view spoiler)[Eli loses his mother in an explosion and his father swears to never research time travel again. Eli and his father flee across the country to dodge the government department which was funding the research. Eli learns more about the accident that cost him his mother only to have the "DARPA" agents show up a few months later. This leads to Eli getting "untangled in time".Switch perspectives and you have Clyne, a Saurian or humaniod dinosaur from another dimension. For his culminating school project, Clyne has to travel to an alternate dimension and write a report. He is the funny sidekick character who doesn't let his role as sidekick keep him from doing big things. In comes Thea, daughter of the head librarian of Alexandria. Thea and her mother get into all kinds of trouble with the local newly empowered religious populous because they have knowledge of science which far exceeds any male scientist. They are condemned, but in come Clyne and Eli. Then the adventure really begins.(view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]

This book was illustrate by Mark London Williams. The tittle of this book is Danger Boy Ancient Fire Episode 1.This book is mainly about a boy who's try to find his mother. He have a weird nickname the name is Danger boy. For some reason all the people call him the bizarre name.And this book the narrator tell us the in the year 2019 was a secret government and Eli that's the name of Danger Boy his father experiment the past and the time. At this time Eli Mother disappeared. Eli was felt bad and he ability that he have he demonstrate that travel through the time for find his mother. And when he go to the future and then narrator describe that and the future was a planet was call Orange Earth and right here he found a intelligent dinosaur . Eli was a little boy that talk to much but was a good boy, that try to very hard to find his mother.

What do You think about Ancient Fire (2004)?

Taking a look at the synopsis, you might expect this book to make less sense than it does. Yes, there is a time travelling dinosaur involved, so it is a weird story, but it's very well put together. There's a lot more focus on the inventive ways the near future world of Elias works and the drama involving Elias's family takes the forefront. Though a lot of the story takes place in Alexandria, this thread is pretty underdeveloped and seems almost thrown in to introduce Thea. Clyne's story (he's the dino) is clearly being saved for another book. All together it's pretty rapid fire from one item to the next and you feel a little jerked around, but the plot does make sense and is very entertaining. The next book onvolved Nazis vs Merlin, so you know I'm going to read it.
—Matt Mazenauer