The Untimely Journey of Veronica T. Boone - Part I, Laurentide

A heart-pounding mystery adventure for Middle Grade and Tween readers!

The crime of the century. A magical train. Can two girls born 150 years apart stop thieves from stealing the secret to time travel before their own lives disappear forever?

Laurentide, Ohio. Molly is perfectly content. A typical twelve-year-old girl, she loves her family, friends, and riding horses. Out of nowhere a strange woman takes over the school and everything goes crazy. People start hating each other, Molly's favorite teachers get fired, and adults disappear from the town.

Told by an antique shop owner that the stranger is a dangerous time traveler from the 1890s, Molly can't believe such a crazy idea. But when the woman's goons set fire to the entire town, Molly escapes on an unusual steam train…and finds herself racing into the past.

Will Molly's dive into history be the key to stopping a trail of destruction?

Laurentide is the thrilling first book in The Untimely Journey of Veronica T. Boone Middle Grade adventure series. If you like courageous characters, cool historical facts, and fun insights into real American history, then you'll love this wonderful railway rescue.

Children's educational topics: American history, honesty, friendship, patriotism.

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Autorentext

D. M. Sears lives and writes in Virginia. He is a pilot who has written several books about flying under the name Michael Bleriot and now three books for younger readers. The Untimely Journey of Veronica T. Boone was born when his niece requested an adventure story for a 12-year-old girl, one that included trains, horses, and Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. She said it should also include the history of America, "but only the interesting parts."

Klappentext

The first book in a fantastic action-adventure trilogy! When her school is attacked by time-traveling Pug-Nasties, 12-year-old Molly fights back. Aided by the mysterious Veronica T. Boone, she jumps through time herself to stop the Nasties where they began, in Chicago in 1893. But the Nasties and their evil mistress give chase, and now Molly and Veronica are on the run - decades before they were born!

With adventure, friendship, dramatic chases, exotic travel, tornadoes, Presidents of the United States, millionaires, gangsters, bootleggers, monsters, and one helpful but ornery African dwarf mongoose, The Untimely Journey of Veronica T. Boone is a heart-pounding race through the 20th Century, a race Molly can't afford to lose. The winners will save history - while the losers will vanish forever...