The Seven Story Ziggurat

Ninth-grader Gilbert Hart skateboards back in time to vanquish the family curse.

"He opened the book that night after Bebe and Mom had gone to bed and studied the illustrations of kids that looked his age upside down, sideways, and backwards in giant concrete pipes, empty swimming pools, and even sliding underneath eighteen wheelers in a parking lot. Some pictures lacked detail, too blurred. Gilbertt's heart pounded, beating faster than he ever felt it, as if it would jump out of his bod…