Battle Before Time

Max McCrane is a young inventor who built his own time machine. But Max's life isn't easy-he just wants to fit in and make friends at Victor Appleton Middle School. His time machine-a rusty orange Volkswagen he calls Timebender-is a photon-powered vehicle that leaps across the centuries with ease. Climb aboard with Max and his companions-Allie O'Dell, Grady Stubblefield, and Toby Brubaker-as they face dinosaurs, alien Emissaries, and mankind's most ancient and terrifying Enemy, the Silver Dragon. Author JIM DENNEY has written more than a hundred books, but the Timebenders series is his favorite. "Each Timebenders tale," he says, "is a thrill-ride through time and space-and timeless truth." Jim is a member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).