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Perfect for fans of Margaret Peterson Haddix, When You Reach Me, and Savvy, this charming time-travel story from husband-and-wife team Marisa de los Santos and David Teague follows one girl's race to change the past in order to save her father's future.
Thirteen-year-old Margaret knows her father is innocent, but that doesn't stop the cruel Judge Biggs from sentencing him to death. Margaret is determined to save her dad, even if it means using her family's secret--and forbidden--ability to time travel. With the help of her best friend, Charlie, and his grandpa Josh, Margaret goes back to a time when Judge Biggs was a young boy and tries to prevent the chain of events that transformed him into a corrupt, jaded man. But with the forces of history working against her, will Margaret be able to change the past? Or will she be pushed back to a present in which her father is still doomed?
Told in alternating voices between Margaret and Josh, this heartwarming story shows that sometimes the forces of good need a little extra help to triumph over the forces of evil.
Two children facing family crises created by the domineering Victory energy company team up to try to change history in this time-travel adventure. Great characters, and a story that focuses more on history and realistic steps to create change than magical abilities. Fantastic!
middlegrade fiction (innocent father gets death penalty so daughter decides to time travel in order to turn the judge back into a good guy). I got to p. 47 in this (ch.4) but didn't feel like continuing, though I do have respect for the author/illustrators (even if no cookie-eating dinosaurs ever show up--oh wait, that's Mark Teague I'm thinking of). ( )
I generally enjoy Marisa de los Santos but this just didn't do it for me. I thought the story was disjointed and a bit violent for the target age group. I didn't see any other reviews that spoke to that, so perhaps it was just the way I perceived it. ( )
After finding out her dad is being wrongfully accused of a crime he did not commit, Margaret goes against the vow she said to her family and decides to use her power to go back and change the outcome of the judge’s decision. This book can open a discussion with the class about if they had a special power what would they want it to be. Prompts like these can keep students engaged when writing. This book would be best for the older elementary grades. ( )
..."...sure, the past matters - but the present? The present is here and here and here, a sky full of light, a path under your feet, your hair lifted by the wind... All you have to do is set fear aside and stretch out your hand." Sometimes the best way to change history is working towards it right here in the present. ( )
In the time it took a man to speak a single sentence, I discovered three things: there's a reason a judge's robe looks like the Grim Reaper's; a blooming jacaranda tree can feel like a big fat slap in the face; and there is such a thing as a silent scream.
Quotations
"Equilibrium" got a page [in Margaret's notebook] all to itself. It's really just a fancy way of saying "balance," but I loved how long and ripply it ws an dhow it did what it meant, how that "eek" at the front was balanced out by the soft humming "um" of the end. I gues it became a knid of motto for me. I am not necessarily a balanced person by nature, but I try. When I think a bad thought, I try to balance it out with a happy one. I doesn't work all the time, but if I do say so myself, over the years, I've gotten good at it." (p. 31)
... Charlie and I flat-out loved the library. It was the first place we'd ever walked to alone together, without any adults, so maybe we got used to it feeling like an adventure. What I think we loved best about it was the sense of possibiity: the sight of all those books just lined up, one after the other after the other, with whole worlds clapped between their covers. (p. 232)
Last words
He held mine, too, right there in the one now, the spot where we stood, and the road went onward, onward, onward all the way home.
Perfect for fans of Margaret Peterson Haddix, When You Reach Me, and Savvy, this charming time-travel story from husband-and-wife team Marisa de los Santos and David Teague follows one girl's race to change the past in order to save her father's future.
Thirteen-year-old Margaret knows her father is innocent, but that doesn't stop the cruel Judge Biggs from sentencing him to death. Margaret is determined to save her dad, even if it means using her family's secret--and forbidden--ability to time travel. With the help of her best friend, Charlie, and his grandpa Josh, Margaret goes back to a time when Judge Biggs was a young boy and tries to prevent the chain of events that transformed him into a corrupt, jaded man. But with the forces of history working against her, will Margaret be able to change the past? Or will she be pushed back to a present in which her father is still doomed?
Told in alternating voices between Margaret and Josh, this heartwarming story shows that sometimes the forces of good need a little extra help to triumph over the forces of evil.
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