Derrick Saves Ancient Athens

From Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author Tiffany Pham

Athens is dying. The plague is in the streets. Sparta's army is at the border. And someone is working — patiently, invisibly — to make sure the world's first democracy never sees its hundredth year.

Fourteen-year-old Derrick Pham knows ancient Athens better than most adults. He's spent his whole life learning it — in museums, at archaeological digs, over scrambled eggs with his mom. History is the one place he's always made sense.

But wh...