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2) Evil star
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Having locked the Raven's gate, fourteen-year-old Matt travels to Peru where he meets the second of the five gatekeepers and works with him to try to stop the opening of a second gate somehow related to the Nazca Lines.
10) The Ugly One
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Micay is a little girl living in the Incan city of Machu Picchu. She considers herself hideous, with a scar like a river running from her right eye to her mouth--everyone ignores her because of it, and she hides it with her hair. When a stranger from the jungle comes to the mountain city, he gives Micay a baby macaw, and her life changes forever.
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"Plucked from his small fishing village and captured by the conquistadors looking to plunder the gold of Peru, young Waman is the everyman thrown into extraordinary circumstances, caught up in history's throes. He finds himself at every major moment in the empire-building of the Spanish explorers, including Francisco Pizarro, and in the culture clash and violent overthrow of the Incan leaders. He becomes an indispensable translator between the two...