When Sam’s mother dies, his distraught father sells their home and pur chases an antique bookstore. Sam’s father now seems to have disappeared. As Sam investigates the bookstore for a clue into his father’s disappearance, he discovers a secret room. Inside the room is a coin that when placed in a stone sculpture sends Sam on time travel adventures. When Sam returns home, clues suggest that his father has been imprisoned in another time—in Dracula’s castle! This is the first in the The Book of Time trilogy. Sequels are The Gate of Days (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2008) and The Circle of Gold (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2007) . pwc

Originally published as La Pierre Sculptée in French by Gallimard Jeunesse France, in 2006. Translated by William Rodarmor.

Scholastic introduces the next name in YA adventure: Guillaume Prevost, whose Book of Time trilogy is one part DA VINCI CODE, one part DRACULA, one part THE TIME-TRAVELER'S WIFE, and all thrilling.
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 . . .