Time Sight
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- 47,99 zł
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- 47,99 zł
Publisher Description
Castles, battles, the ancient Scottish Highlands, and a boy who is determined to bring everyone safely home combine in this absorbing middle grade time-travel adventure.
Will’s mother is in danger overseas, and his father must find her, so Will and his little brother are packed off to relatives in Scotland. Will feels useless. He can’t save his mother. He can’t help his father. And when he tries to amuse his brother on the plane ride, he can’t even locate the images in Jamie’s book—the hidden pictures that everyone else can see. Once at the family’s ancestral castle, though, Will tries again. And as he delicately adjusts his focus, suddenly his eyes tune in to a different visual frequency—the past.
Looking back five hundred years is interesting . . . at first. But when Jamie impulsively leaps through the opening in time, Will and his cousin Nan must follow, into a past so dangerous that Will isn’t sure how he will get everyone safely home.
Christy Ottaviano Books
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Jonell beguilingly entwines history and fiction in this sprawling time travel novel set at Menzies Castle in the Scottish Highlands. Will and Jamie Menzies arrive from the U.S. to stay with relatives, who keep the family castle open to tourists. Their father, meanwhile, is searching for their mother, who was recently taken hostage during a medical mission to a war-ravaged country. Exploring the fortress, 12-year-old Will discovers that he has Time Sight, which transports him, his younger brother, and their Scots cousin back to critical moments in their ancestors' lives. Among the events they witness are the rival Stewart clan's burning of the castle in the Middle Ages and escalating tensions between warring Picts and Romans during the Iron Age. Jonell (The Sign of the Cat), a descendant of the Menzies clan, provides vivid recreations of these episodes, made even more immediate and involving given that each unfolds on the site of the present-day castle, and Mildenberger's airy pictures deftly incorporate past and present action. Will's awakening to his strong bond with his ancestors and to the senseless violence that molded history and currently threatens his own mother's safety gives the story additional acuity and depth. Ages 8 11.
