Throwback
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2.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
2019 Bank Street College of Education's "Best Children's Books of the Year"
Peter Lerangis, the New York Times bestselling author of the Seven Wonders and Max Tilt series, returns with an electrifying new trilogy about a boy who discovers that he alone may be able to alter the course of history.
Corey Fletcher has an active imagination. He sees things no one else does. Cracks jokes no one else gets. And goes places few would ever dare go. Like the past.
All he needs is a metal artifact from a point in time, and Corey can go there. Although hundreds of time travelers live in secret throughout the world, including Corey's own grandfather, none has the ability to change past events.
But when Corey accidentally saves a life while time traveling, he realizes that he is the first-ever “Throwback,” with the power to alter life as we know it. Which means his own life is now in all sorts of danger.
This is the first book in a thrilling, edge-of-your-seat adventure series from New York Times bestselling author Peter Lerangis, whose books have sold over five and a half million copies worldwide.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
After learning that he is a Throwback, who can travel back in time and alter the past, Corey Fletcher, 13, vows to do what his grandfather couldn't: prevent his grandmother from dying in the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center. Things go awry, though; he ends up robbed and stranded in New York City in 1917, and he must retrieve his possessions and avoid myriad dangers if he wants to return to his own era. With this exciting adventure, Lerangis (the Seven Wonders series) captures the diversity of New York throughout the decades, and Corey's own heritage (his mother is Puerto Rican and father is Greek-American) plays a small but important role along the way. The narrative works best when it focuses on the personal stakes; elements of the worldbuilding such as the long-term side effects of time travel are less successful, while related subplots are left dangling for future installments of the planned trilogy to address. Nevertheless, the thought-provoking concept and Corey's own heartbreaking attempts to prevent tragedy should easily draw readers. Ages 8 12.
Customer Reviews
Seriously not good.
This just did not rise to your normal level. Very frustrating to read.