Grant, Michael

A collection of essays that provide information about the ancient Mediterranean civilizations of Greece and Rome, providing a chronological survey of the period from the early first millennium B.C. to the late fifth century A.D., and covering the topics of geography, population, food and agriculture, technology, and government and society.

Discusses twelve Greek and Roman historians, the methods they used in writing of the events of the day, and how they differ from our present day concepts of a historian.

As conditions worsen in the FAYZ, where supernatural forces have trapped children under the age of fifteen and resources are running out, it becomes tempting to heed the words of a prophet who says that only death will set them free.

Conditions worsen for the remaining young residents of a small California coastal town isolated by supernatural events when their food supplies dwindle and the Darkness underground awakens.

Mack MacAvoy, an average-seeming twelve-year-old boy who happens to have special powers, travels to China with aims to assemble an elite team of his peers to help him thwart the evil Pale Queen, but to succeed Mack must avoid being killed by Princess Risky and figure out why Paddy Nine-Iron Trout is after the Magnificent 12.