Just before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, an anti-American Muslim group gains power in Java, and Isaac, the twelve-year-old son of American missionary doctors, finds his world turned upside-down.
Fair-skinned and blond-haired, thirteen-year-old Luchi was born in a Thai prison where her American mother was being held and she has never had any other home, but when her mother dies Luchi sets out into the world to search for the family and home she has always dreamed of.
While spending the summer at his relatives' British manor house, Ralph finds himself transported to a fantasy world where he must battle knights, dragons, and dark magic.
Documents the creation of the Panama Canal, from the first attempts by the Spanish over 400 years ago to the completion of the canal by the United States in 1914.
