A Rope of Sand: Part One

By Peter Verzi-Worth

Leo is just another sixteen-year-old nerd, on his first day back at school. Except that he's the clone of Leonardo da Vinci. And his best friend is the clone of Rosa Parks. In fact, everyone at Historical High is a clone of a historical figure, from the students to the staff. When his long-standing crush on Elizabeth I gets him into a party rife with underage drinking, makes him a new friend, and earns him the hatred of quarterback Thutmosis III, fate seems to have it in for Leo. Will he get the girl? Will he get the crap beaten out of him? Will you read this book? Only one of those three questions can be answered by you. Better make it 'yes'.

Inspired by the MTV television show Clone High by Phil Lord and Chris Miller.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Peter Verzi-Worth
• Release date: Jan 19, 2017

Book preview

Okay, Leo. It's fine. Everything's fine. It's just the first day of school for the year. You’ve done this before. How hard can it be?

Pretty hard, actually, especially when you're the teenage clone of Leonardo da Vinci. In fact, everyone at Historical High was a clone of some kind of noteworthy historical figure. It was a strange state of affairs, really, but it had been all they'd ever known so none of them really questioned it. Their mad scientist creator had been missing for years, leaving Gilgamesh to take over as the school's principal.

Leo decided he'd spent enough time pep-talking himself in front of the mirror, adjusted the R2-D2 watch around his wrist, grabbed his bag and left for school. Historical High wasn't too far from his house, in fact it wasn't far from anyone's house. The entire town of Cloneville, MI had kind of just sprung up around the high school, for reasons that weren't entirely clear but Leo had always suspected it had something to do with their creator. They had to have been made for some purpose, after all, but if Principal Gilgamesh knew anything he certainly hadn't told Leo about it. But it made it