num_pages: 283
description: A many-worlds adventure novel from the acclaimed author of Powerless ! The Dead Gentleman is a wild ride between parallel New York City timestreams1901 and today. Eleven-year-old Tommy Learner is a street orphan and an unlikely protg of the Explorers a secret group dedicated to exploring portalsthe hidden doorways to other worlds. But in the basement of an old hotel his world collides with that of modern-day Jezebel Lemon.Now Jezebel and Tommy must thwart the Dead Gentleman a legendary villain whose last unconquered world is our own planet Earth a realm where the dead stay deadfor now. Can two kids put an end to this ancient evil and his legions of Grave Walkers?
language: English
title: The Dead Gentleman
publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers