Double Cross (Last Musketeer #3)

by Stuart Gibbs (Author)

Double Cross (Last Musketeer #3)
Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade
Series: Last Musketeer

The past, present, and future are all at stake in this final book in the thrilling time travel adventure trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Stuart Gibbs. This middle grade novel is an excellent choice for tween readers in grades 5 to 7, including for summer reading and during homeschooling. It's a fun way to keep your child entertained and engaged while not in the classroom.

Greg Rich should feel invincible. After all, he's traveled through time, become one of the legendary Musketeers, and--most recently--prevented the Spanish army from attacking Paris.

Instead, he and his friends are languishing in prison, having fallen into a trap set by Milady and the Prince of Condé. But Greg didn't come to the seventeenth century to sit in a jail cell and await execution.

He, Aramis, Athos, and Porthos need to get to King Louis, who is in immediate danger of being overthrown by the scheming prince. To save the king and history itself, the boys must break out of prison, defend Louis, and return Greg and his parents to the twenty-first century before it's too late.

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Readers who've already accepted Greg's time travel and easy embodiment of Three Musketeers character D'Artagnan will find the same accessibility in this seventeenth-century adventure set in France. Greg and the Musketeers foil duplicitous Milady and save young Louis XIII's throne. Like the previous installments, this third book spells out differences between eras, making it well-suited for new time-travel fans.


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Praise for THE LAST MUSKETEER:

"From the gripping first sentence...the excitement never flags in this newly imagined Musketeer adventure. Using Alexandre Dumas' stories as a jumping-off point, Gibbs mixes fact, fantasy and thrills to create a galloping swashbuckler."—Kirkus Reviews

Stuart Gibbs
Stuart Gibbs is the New York Times bestselling author of the Charlie Thorne series, FunJungle series, Moon Base Alpha series, Once Upon a Tim series, and Spy School series. He has written screenplays, worked on a whole bunch of animated films, developed TV shows, been a newspaper columnist, and researched capybaras (the world's largest rodents). Stuart lives with his family in Los Angeles. You can learn more about what he's up to at StuartGibbs.com.

Anjan Sarkar's preferred illustration style is "wonky and slightly misshapen," which he realized around the time that he started drawing with his children (who are masters of the wonky line). His work is influenced by illustrators like David McKee, Jill McDonald, and Maurice Sendak, whose books he read as a little person. Anjan is also unhealthily obsessed with a few contemporary illustrators such as Benjamin Chaud, Sara Ogilvie, and Neal Layton. Since becoming a full-time illustrator, he's created illustrations for children's books, animation, and advertising. Anjan works from a little studio in his house in Sheffield, England, where he lives with his wife and two kids.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780062048455
Lexile Measure
750
Guided Reading Level
16
Publisher
HarperCollins
Publication date
May 20, 2019
Series
Last Musketeer
BISAC categories
JUV001000 - Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure
JUV016040 - Juvenile Fiction | Historical | Europe
JUV064000 - Juvenile Fiction | Time Travel
Library of Congress categories
Time travel
History
France
Characters in literature
Adventure and adventurers
Adventure stories
Paris (France)
17th century
Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis
Louis XIII, 1610-1643

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