The giant Zor, mentioned in earlier books, turns out to be a magical mecha, and the book speeds its way to both a magic duel (with the wizards blazing away at each other as they plummet into vast underground caves) and a giant monster battle straight out of kaiju or Ray Harryhausen movies. Sure, it has the super-fast resolution common to all the books (though for a time I thought that might not be the case - it seemed like maybe the situation was so dire that the kids would remain in Droon until the next book), but it felt like there was more development of interesting ideas in this one. I actually enjoyed this one a good deal more. I've only read through this one - book six - but I have to agree.

Tony had one brother and two sisters.Īnother Secrets of Droon book, which my son told me some time ago was his favorite, back when he'd read the first ten or so. He attended the workshops of Patricia Reilly Giff to further develop his writing after college.Ībbott currently lives in Trumbull, Connecticut, with his wife, two daughters, and two dogs. When he was eight years old, his family moved to Connecticut where he went through elementary school and high school.Ībbott attended the University of Connecticut, and after studying both music and psychology, decided to study English and graduated from the University of Connecticut with a bachelor's degree in English literature.

His father was a university professor and had an extensive library of books which became one of Abbott's first sources of literature. He has also written the bestseller Firegirl.Ībbott was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1952. He has sold over 12 million copies of his books and they have been translated into several other languages, including Italian, Spanish, Korean, French, Japanese, Polish, Turkish, and Russian. His most popular work is the book series The Secrets of Droon, which includes over 40 books. What's clear is that Rose and her compatriots are on the edge of unraveling history's most perplexing discovery-and figuring out what it portends for humanity.Tony Abbott (born 1952) is an American author of children's books.

And along with her colleagues, she is being interviewed by a nameless interrogator whose power and purview are as enigmatic as the provenance of the relic. Rose Franklin is now a highly trained physicist leading a top secret team to crack the hand's code. Its carbon dating defies belief military reports are redacted theories are floated, then rejected.īut some can never stop searching for answers. Seventeen years later, the mystery of the bizarre artifact remains unsolved-its origins, architects, and purpose unknown. But the firemen who come to save her peer down upon something even stranger: a little girl in the palm of a giant metal hand. She wakes up at the bottom of a square hole, its walls glowing with intricate carvings.

A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth.

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