While spending the summer on an archaeological dig near Florence, Italy, with his mother, eleven-year-old Hector meets an Etruscan boy who needs help to foil his treacherous uncle's plan to make him a human sacrifice--1,000 years in the past.
year: 2005
call number/section: 1000
subjects: archaeology, fiction, etruscans, time travel, mothers and sons, human sacrifice, italy, fiction