Arabella Twigg is a very ordinary girl – the sort of girl no-one really notices. She lives with her peculiar family and her horrid brother, Tom.

Strange things happen to her when Mrs.Osborne, her teacher, gives her homework. She has to find out all she can about the Aztecs.

Unfortunately, she is transported back to the time of the Aztecs, taking her angry brother with her.

How can she save her brother from an horrific death?

How can they ever get back home?