Black powder
By: Staton Rabin.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294 -- Fiction.; Time travel -- Fiction.; Firearms -- Fiction.; Gunpowder -- Fiction.; Astronomy -- Fiction.; Grief -- Fiction.; African Americans -- Fiction.; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction.; Oxford (England) -- History -- Edward I, 1272-1307 -- Fiction.; Great Britain -- History -- Edward I, 1272-1307 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: After his best friend is shot and killed, fourteen-year-old Langston borrows his science teacher's time machine and travels from Los Angeles in 2010 to Oxford, England, in 1278 to try to prevent Roger Bacon from publishing his formula for gunpowder.