Gate of Days
Sam Faulkner now knows his father is trapped in Vlad Tepes's castle, but he can't save him without the seven coins that will allow him to direct his travel to the right year in Time. So he sets off on a desperate journey through the ages to collect the coins – to the oracle at Delphi, Pompeii before Mt. Vesuvius – even Chicago in 1932, where he meets his seven-year-old grandfather. But things get wilder still when he finally finds his father, who is sick, dying, raving... and who insists they must rescue Sam's dead mother from Time!
About the Book of Time Series
Books in series order
- 1.The Book of Time(2006)
- 2.Gate of Days(2007)
- 3.The Circle of Gold(2009)
Reading age: 9+ years
This series should be read in order.
A statue; a coin; an old book. They look as dusty as everything else in the Faulkner Antiquarian Bookstore, where 14-year-old Sam Faulkner seeks his father, who's been missing for days. But when Sam slips the coin into the statue, he's swept back in time – to Scotland in 800 A.D. – where he must find both the statue and another coin in order to return to the present. It's the first step in an adventure that will take him to ancient Egypt, World War I, even Dracula's castle – and a mystery that will end only when Sam saves his father, or loses him in time...