Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Jeanette

Dewey and Suze, two very different young girls (one is mechanically minded, the other more artistic, but both outcast in their community) are coming of age during WW2 on the Los Alamos base. Because their community does not exist, and everything about the "gadget" their parents are working on is top secret (even from the members of the scientists families) this makes coming-of-age a little different, but just as ... read more>>>

Publisher Comments

Imprint: Grosset & Dunlap
Distributor: Penguin Group USA, Inc
Publication Date: 07-26-2008
Pages: 48
Measurements: 8.98in X 6.06in X 0.16in X 0.23lb

Publisher Comments

A statue; a coin; an old book. They look as dusty as everything else in the Faulkner Antiquarian Bookstore, where 14-year-old Sam Faulkner seeks his father, who's been missing for days. But when Sam slips the coin into the statue, he's swept back in time -- to Scotland in 800 A.D. -- where he must find both the statue and another coin in order to return to the present. It's the first step in an adventure that will take him to ancient Egypt, Wo... read more>>>