{"product_id":"book-20dv","title":"Derrick Saves Ancient Athens","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author Tiffany Pham\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAthens is dying. The plague is in the streets. Sparta's army is at the border. And someone is working - patiently, invisibly - to make sure the world's first democracy never sees its hundredth year.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFourteen-year-old Derrick Pham knows ancient Athens better than most adults. He's spent his whole life learning it - in museums, at archaeological digs, over scrambled eggs with his mom. History is the one place he's always made sense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut when a bronze owl medallion pulls him through time to 429 BC, Derrick arrives in a city on the edge of collapse. The plague is burning through the walls. Sparta's army is camped outside. And someone is working to destroy Athenian democracy from within - before it can survive long enough to change the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith an increasingly eccentric Socrates as his unlikely guide - and Syona, a metalworker's daughter who insists she shouldn't exist - Derrick must navigate a world without Wi-Fi, translation apps, or any of the things a modern eighth-grader relies on to function. He'll need to learn what real philosophy actually felt like, what wisdom sounds like in a city that hasn't invented the word yet, and what a fourteen-year-old can do when the stakes are five thousand years long.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause if Athens falls, more than one city dies. Everything it inspired dies with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eA middle-grade time-travel adventure for ages 10-14 that takes ancient history seriously and trusts young readers to do the same. Book One of the Derrick Series.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":67356446064944,"sku":"BD20dv","price":15.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/20dv-Square-cover.png?v=1783744633","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-20dv","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}