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Here are the two versions of the summary:

Summary 1
John, a 14 year old boy, lives a hard yet sheltered life on a Pennsylvania farm.

Diana, the child prodigy of her race, is frozen in stone for hundreds of years.

Their paths cross on a routine class field trip and their lives irrevocably change.  Can she return to her race and save her homeland from extinction?  Can he find the time and strength to help her while hiding the truth from his austere parents?  They must use every resource they have available to them to uncover centuries’ old secrets as lives hang in the balance.  Portals, amulets, power crystals, an ancient city, and the ability to influence the world around you down to the tiniest particle are some of the magical things John must embrace to help Diana, but as Diana would tell you, “It’s science, not magic!”

Travel with John and Diana and a diverse cast of characters through an adventure of discovery, loss, and rebirth as friendships are forged and old debts are revisited in this tale where “mind over matter” has a whole new meaning.

Summary 2
Have you ever done something without thinking and have it change your life forever?  That’s what happened to 14 year old John Brown on his eighth grade field trip.  He slid his steel toed work book out a mere six inches.  That’s all he did.  It just so happened to slide in front of a classmate, a very large classmate, with large friends.  Have you ever tried to hide out in a museum exhibition room?  If you are Scooby Doo you could put on a costume and find an empty pedestal, or if you are John Brown you could climb over a priceless statue and drop into the small corner hidey hole behind it.

Hopefully you would have the grace not to trip and kick the statue when leaving said hidey hole unlike poor John.  John ended up obliterating half the statue, revealing a very dusty Diana.  John’s solution?  Sneak the girl home to his farm before the other half of the statue broke and freed the not so friendly looking man it depicted.

It turns out Diana is no ordinary girl.  Centuries ago she lived in an isolated pocket of space removed from reality called New Zigon.  She has abilities to manipulate the world around her with the help of an amulet she hides under her skin.

John enlists the help of two of his eleven sisters and his neighbor the widow McNeally to take care of Diana but the real adventures begin as Diana drags John with her to New Zigon and then on a rescue mission to free the man in the statue, Michael, from a psychiatric institute.  When the widow is kidnapped, to save her they must find a crystal stolen centuries ago.  They face off against a skeletal old woman in New Zigon and an amazingly youthful looking Lord Vito Dragotta, Michael’s cousin from the fourteenth century.  Throughout all this John has to hide everything from his strict adoptive parents and still manage to get his chores done on time.