The Never War

D. J. MacHale. Aladdin Paperbacks, $8.99 (352pp) ISBN 978-0-7434-3733-2

Also voyaging through time, the 14-year-old hero of the Pendragon series lands in 1937 New York City, on ""First Earth,"" in The Never War by D.J. MacHale. Bobby and Spader (introduced in the previous installment, The Lost City of Faar) must find their old foe, Saint Dane, and figure out his latest plot.

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