The mummy that Andrew creates for his fifth grade project seems to have special powers and helps him to understand his feelings about himself, his dead mother, and his stepbrother, who he calls Mr. Gifted.
During a school trip to Ellis Island, Dominick Avaro, a ten-year-old foster child, travels back in time to 1908 Italy and accompanies two young emigrants to America.
The mummy that Andrew creates for his fifth grade project seems to have special powers and helps him to understand his feelings about himself, his dead mother, and his stepbrother, who he calls Mr. Gifted.
In 1853, in letters to his older brother, eleven-year-old Levi describes his adventures in the Pennsylvania countryside with his black friend Jupiter and his experiences with the Underground Railroad.
In the midst of a backyard campout, ten-year-old Matt and four other children find themselves transported back to the time of George Washington and the American Revolution, where they begin to live out American history firsthand and learn the sober realities of war.
When Mrs. McClosky's three rambunctious boys wake up one day and find they have turned into monkeys, Mrs. McClosky takes them to live at the zoo where they are a big hit.
London 1735 Eleven year old Forrest Harper lives with his family at the Tower of London, where he helps his father tend the ravens and guard the prisoners.
Dominic is transported back to Italy in 1908 when he connects with an Italian immigrant on Ellis Island. Maybe his painful secret of being an orphan will not have to be revealed.
