Saving Lucas Biggs

Perfect for fans of The Thing About Jellyfish, Echo, and Hour of the Bees, 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.

To save her father, Margaret must unravel a decades-old injustice. But can one girl really rewrite history?
Time Travel Adventure: Margaret has one chance to break her family’s most sacred rule and leap back to 1938 Arizona. But the forces of history don’t like to be changed.Historical Fiction for Kids: Experience the struggles of a 1930s company coal mining town through the eyes of Josh, a boy who befriends the future judge when he was still a kid named Luke.A High-Stakes Mystery: To save her father in the present, Margaret must figure out what twisted a young boy into a cruel man—and stop it before it happens.Unlikely Friendship: Told from two points of view, this is a story of two pairs of friends separated by decades, fighting for what’s right against impossible odds.