THE SUMMARY OF NOVEL ( ULYSSES MOORE - THE DOOR TO TIME BY PIERDOMENICO BACCALARIO) #MidtermProject

ULYSSES MOORE COVER
Date of Publication : January 1st 2006 by Scholastic Inc.

THE SUMMARY OF ULYSSES MOORE:
DOOR TO TIME

Covenant family has just moved from London to Kilmore Cove, a small city located near the seashore. They live at Argo Manor, a big house left by Ulysses Moore, a mysterious man. This makes Argo Manor as mysterious as its owner. Jason and Julia Covenant, a twin children of the family, at first think that it will be boring to live in such a house. However, they are totally wrong. Argo Manor has more defiances than they can imagine, especially when their parents left Kilmore Cove to keep up with things in London and their friend, Rick Banner, comes. There is only Mr. Nestor, Argo Manor’s caretaker, who is given responsibility to keep an eye on the kids but he lets they do what they want. They decided to spend the day exploring the house.

While examining every room, Julia suddenly felt like swimming.  The three friends got excited and ran down cliffside stairs. The story began when Jason slipped when he climbed up the cliff and he hung on the cliff for a while.  Fortunately, he was able to swing over with help from Rick.  Interestingly, he found a box hidden in a hole by the cliffside.  The box contained a note that was written in a language that they could not understand. They went to the library room and found the Dictionary of Forgotten Languages.  Looking up letter by letter, they were able to translate the note into a riddle. The box also contained a note for a package pickup at the post office.

They picked up the package from the post office.  It contained a set of four ancient-looking keys, each with an animal at its end - elephant, newt, owl, and porcupine.  They continued exploring every room. He found a hidden door behind a large piece of furniture.  The door was locked and it had four key holes in it.  They were so excited as the keys seems to fit the holes on the door.  However, since all keys fits all holes it was a little tricky.  Then, they figured that the animals mean something - O P E N.  That worked!

Behind the door is a long staircase and a tunnel. The tunnel is dark, but they are keep moving forward. A few times Julia wants to turn back, but Jason wants to keep going. Jason risks his life by jumping over a large pit towards the end of the tunnel. Julia does the same in the end. They end up in a cave and find a ship inside. Inconceivably, Jason’s mind connects to the ship, and he makes the ship sail to the other side of the cave and shouts ‘Egypt!’. Once they are there, everything feels different. They overheard other people talking about Pharaoh, Egyptian Tomb, etc. They have traveled through time to ancient Egypt!