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"The Danger Boy books aren't just about history," says Mark London Williams about his middle-grade time-travel novels, an action-filled series dubbed "pulse quickening" by FAMILYFUN magazine. "Hopefully, the way the books are told speaks to a history of storytelling, too. With the reader's blessing, the stories also get unstuck from those histories, roam back and forth in time, make a little trouble."

The year is 2019, and a secret government agency is forcing Eli Sands's dad to continue with his time-travel experiments, even though Eli's mom has just disappeared in one. Now Eli has a ridiculous code name - and a gravely important mission. In DANGER BOY: ANCIENT FIRE, a lab accident sends Eli sprawling through the Fifth Dimension, where he h...more "The Danger Boy books aren't just about history," says Mark London Williams about his middle-grade time-travel novels, an action-filled series dubbed "pulse quickening" by FAMILYFUN magazine. "Hopefully, the way the books are told speaks to a history of storytelling, too. With the reader's blessing, the stories also get unstuck from those histories, roam back and forth in time, make a little trouble."

The year is 2019, and a secret government agency is forcing Eli Sands's dad to continue with his time-travel experiments, even though Eli's mom has just disappeared in one. Now Eli has a ridiculous code name - and a gravely important mission. In DANGER BOY: ANCIENT FIRE, a lab accident sends Eli sprawling through the Fifth Dimension, where he hooks up with two unusual sidekicks: Clyne, an evolved dinosaur from an alternate Earth, and Thea, a girl scientist from ancient Alexandria. In DANGER BOY: DRAGON SWORD, Eli's time-traveling talent leads him to his missing mother's location--San Francisco at the start of World War II--and back to the medieval days of King Arthur and Merlin. DANGER BOY: TRAIL OF BONES and DANGER BOY: CITY OF RUINS are the two most recent novels about Eli's adventures.

"The Danger Boy books are about kids, and maybe dinosaurs, coming to grips with 'history' - the world left to them by adults, which, for the past two or more thousand years, has been a big mess," the author says. "Eli, Clyne, and Thea aren't 'stuck' in history like the rest of us; they can move back and forth in time. And maybe, just maybe, they can help make sense of it all." Writing the Danger Boy books has provided Mark London Williams with a unique perspective. "Each book allows me to become briefly unstuck in time myself," he explains. "I can visit a time or place or people I am alternatively curious above, terrified of, or maybe - like San Francisco in the 1940's - a little wistful that I missed."

In addition to the author's interest in the past, the Danger Boy books draw on other influences, including comics, sci-fi television, plays, movies, and "news bulletins" from the writer's 1960s childhood. Most immediately, however, the idea for the series sprang from Mark London Williams's son. "My then toddler-size oldest child ran down the hallway yelling, 'I'm a Danger Boy!' Then he started talking about dinosaurs."

Mark London Williams, who has two sons, lives in Hollywood, California, where he works as a journalist and teacher as well as an author.
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Books by Mark London Williams

Average rating: 3.48 · 132 ratings · 24 reviews · 8 distinct works

	Danger Boy, Episode 1: Ancient Fire 3.46 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Dragon Sword: Danger Boy Episode 2 3.50 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	My rating:
	City of Ruins: Danger Boy Episode 4 3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Trail of Bones: Danger Boy Episode 3 3.50 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Curious George: Tadpole Trouble: Curious about Living Things 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2007	My rating:
	Animals. Graphics and Text, Mark Williams 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Cry of Pain: Understanding Suicide and Self-Harm by J. Mark G. Williams, Mark London Williams 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	The Big Bigfoot Book by Richard Klaw, Dan Burr, Mark London Williams 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1996	My rating: