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The Ring of Fire

Published
Sep 2009
Main Genre
Fantasy Fantasy
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336
Series
Century Book 1

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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.

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May 2010 Yearling ISBN 0375857958
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First Edition Sep 2009 Random House ISBN 0375858954
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Sep 2009 Random House ISBN 0375892265
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Sep 2009 Random House ISBN B002NXOQH0
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Sep 2009 Random House Audio ISBN 0307582434
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Sep 2009 Listening Library ISBN B002OFDGP0
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