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“Holy page-turners! If this had been 5,000 pages longer I still would have stayed up all night reading it! Ann and Ben Brashares have created a fast-building, heart-in-your-throat, alternative-history disaster story like no other. The voices of the two narrators - one in the World War II era, one in modern times - feel warm and alive, and the story revolves as much around the friendships of the 2 groups - 3 in current times, 3 in the past - as it does around messing up the timeline. This will be a sure bet with middle grade readers.”
— Chris • Belmont Books
“What a thrilling—and chilling—adventure!” —Margaret Peterson Haddix, New York Times bestselling author
From #1 New York Times bestselling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants author Ann Brashares and her brother Ben Brashares comes the first book in a “pulse-pounding” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) middle grade alternate history thriller trilogy that asks what it would be like in present-day America if Germany had won World War II.
Henry, Frances, and Lukas are neighbors, and they used to be best friends. But in middle school Frances got emo, Lukas went to private school, and Henry just felt left behind. When they come together again for the funeral of a pet gerbil, the three ex-friends make a mind-blowing discovery: a radio, buried in Henry’s backyard, that allows them to talk to another group of kids in the same town...in the same backyard...eighty years in the past. The kids in 1944 want to know about the future: Are there laser guns? Flying cars? Jetpacks, at least? Most of all, they want to know about the outcome of the world war their dad and brothers are fighting in. Though Henry is cautious—he’s seen movies about what happens when you disrupt the fabric of time—soon the present-day kids are sending their new friends on a mission to rescue a doomed candy store. What harm could that do? But one change leads to another, and when the six friends alter history in the biggest way possible, it’s up to them to change it back.
Ann Brashares is a writer and mother of four living in New York City. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series as well as several other novels. Before becoming a novelist, she was a student of philosophy, a receptionist, an editor, a ghostwriter, and briefly, the copresident of a small media company. Before that, she grew up in Washington, DC, with her three brothers and a stunning number of weird pets. She helped her youngest brother, Ben, with his socks and shoes every morning before school until he learned to tie his own shoes himself, around ninth grade.
Ben Brashares lives with his wife and three kids in Montclair, New Jersey. He is the author of two children’s books, Being Edie Is Hard Today and The Great Whipplethorp Bug Collection. He holds an MFA in creative writing and has worked at and written for several magazines, including Rolling Stone and Men’s Journal. He spent much of his youth wading through heaps of clothes in his big sister’s room looking for the family’s escape-artist tarantula, Fredricka. He may or may not have put Frederika on his sister’s head while she slept.
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Audiobook details
Authors:
Brashares, Ann & Ben Brashares
Narrators:
Carlotta Brentan & André Santana
ISBN:
9781797199832
Length:
10 hours 10 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Audio
Publication date:
September 17, 2024
Edition:
Unabridged
Libro.fm rank:
#25,554 Overall
Genre rank:
#4,737 in Children's