Ann Hood's beloved Treasure Chest series gets a whole new look! The time-traveling Robbins twins meet history's most captivating figures—this time featuring writer Pearl Buck.

When twins Felix and Maisie Robbins move with their mother to a historic seventy-room mansion in Rhode Island, they were expecting to deal with the normal problems that come from starting at a new school. But that quickly changes when they discover The Treasure Chest—a magical room that transports them through time.

When Felix's attempt to impress his crush goes awry and sends him and Maisie back in time to a village on the Yangtze River in China, they meet a young Pearl Buck, who would later become the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. The twins land in the days just before the Boxer Rebellion, an uprising against foreign influence, and every day they're stuck there feels more tense than the last. Will the twins find a way home before tensions hit a breaking point?

Bestselling author Ann Hood brings you a historical fiction series filled with adventure, humor, and heart.
 
Contributor Bio(s)
 
Ann Hood (she/her) is the author of the bestselling novels The Book That Matters Most, The Obituary Writer, Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine, The Red Thread, and The Knitting Circle, as well as the memoir Comfort: A Journey Through Grief, which was a New York Times Editor's Choice and chosen as one of the top ten nonfiction books of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly. She has won two Pushcart Prizes as well as a Best American Spiritual Writing Award, two Best American Food Writing Awards, and a Best American Travel Writing Award. A regular contributor to the New York Times, Hood's short stories and essays have appeared in many publications, including Ploughshares, Tin House, Traveler, Bon Appetit, O, More, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Paris Review, and others. She is the editor of the anthologies Knitting Yarns: Writers Writing About Knitting, Knitting Pearls: More Writers Writing About Knitting, and Providence Noir. Hood is also the author of books for children, including the middle-grade novel How I Saved My Father (And Ruined Everything Else), Jude Banks: Superhero, Clementine, and the ten-book Treasure Chest series for young readers. Her memoir, Morningstar: Growing Up with Books, was published in August 2017. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and New York City, and is married to the writer Michael Ruhlman.