While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San Francisco, fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, suddenly find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient and powerful book holding the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life.
year: 2007
call number/section: 1000, 6, 1
subjects: dee, john, 1527-1608, fiction, flamel, nicolas, d. 1418, juvenile fiction, twins, fiction, brothers and sisters, supernatural, magic, alchemists, san francisco (calif.), fiction