He’s mocked for his name and nerdy interests at Chapel Hill High School in Portland, Oregon, and doesn’t speak enough Farsi to communicate with his Iranian relatives either. Iranian on his mother’s side and white American on his father’s side, Darius never quite fits in. When Darius’ grandfather becomes terminally ill, Darius, along with his parents and younger sister, travels to Iran for the first time in his life. Readers will be intrigued, puzzled-and ready for the next one.ĭarius Kellner suffers from depression, bullying by high school jocks, and a father who seems to always be disappointed in him.

Scarrow blends adventure with history in a way that goes down painlessly. But what could be worse than the survival of a previously unknown breed of dinosaur that has actually learned how to adapt, just by watching Liam and Becks in the past? It’s another wild ride through time, with the team always aware that changing one minor event can have devastating consequences to the future. The agency wants the secret of time travel for itself, spelling disaster for the future. Meanwhile, locked in New York City in a never-ending loop of September 10-11, 2001, Maddy and Sal work feverishly to conserve enough energy to open another window for a rescue, but they face the challenge of a secret government agency that waits for the day that Liam’s message, discovered in the 1940s, can be delivered. It’s up to Liam and his robotic support unit Becks to protect the group from carnivorous and all-too-crafty dinosaurs, while devising a way to send a message back to the future. But things really go awry when Maddy mistakenly opens the wrong window, throwing them (along with everyone around them) back several millennia. In this sequel, a TimeRiders team intends to travel back several decades to prevent an event that would throw everyone into the “wrong” future.

Time riders series