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“Stunning ... inventive ... eye-opening ...
[An] effective mix of fiction and non-fiction.”
—Kirkus Reviews

“ Enormous energy... inventive format... a clever exploration of coast redwoods... [a] smartly layered book. ”
—Publisher's Weekly Starred Review

When a boy riding the subway finds an abandoned book about redwood trees, strange things happen. He reads that their ancestors lived during the Jurassic period as dinosaurs appear at the window. Discovering that redwoods alive today first sprouted during the Roman Empire, he finds himself seated between two Roman citizens. And when, still reading, he emerges from the subway, he enters the very forest described in the book he holds in his hands . . .

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