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| Category: Fiction:Children |
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| About the Book | |
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Aidan Alvarado’s birthday present when he turns eleven is anything but normal, but for Aidan’s family it is ‘normally abnormal’: the key to his grandfather’s wondrous study and a student membership to the League of Dream Detectives. Aidan doesn’t know what that means, but he’ll soon find out as he tries to solve the mystery of a glowing 1300 year-old Chinese vase with the help of his new friends Denise, her brother Jeremiah, some teenagers with a very cool old car, and the dragon girl Lotus. They have to use their wits, courage, compassion and the power of Aidan’s dreams to survive and solve the mystery, both in Ancient China and modern day Los Angeles. Aidan’s adventure leads him to discover a fascinating world of Ancient Chinese wisdom, history and legend as he meets sages, a shape-shifting water spirit dragon, a greedy General, a ferocious bird as large as a jet fighter, China’s only woman emperor, and some very odd characters along the way.
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| About the Author | |
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Ralph Levinson is a Health Sciences Professor of Ophthalmology at UCLA. He loves science, Zen, history, learning about different cultures, and writing. This is his first novel. |