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Synopsis
Clashing teenage twins Arky and Iris have one thing in common: an ancient musical instrument left to them by their mother. When Iris plays the strangely curved woodwind, the trouble begins; Arky's friend, Matt, the school's star quarterback, disappears.
Transported to 1907 and the Carlisle Indian School, Matt is forced to play football for Coach Pop Warner as the Carlisle ''Redmen'' revolutionize Ivy League football. Matt's struggle to ''play his way home'' is complicated when he falls in love with an Indian girl.
Meanwhile, Arky and Iris discover a cache of secrets that might bring Matt back, and lead to the ultimate rescue: their mother, trapped in the past.
Blowback '07 launches a century-spanning trilogy to be continued in Blowback '63 and Blowback '94. Books two and three propel Arky and Iris to the illuminating past, and transform them in ways they never imagined. After all, as their mother once cautioned, ''Every road to the future winds through the past.''
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Matt wrestled with his decision. To escape Alfred's gaze, he glanced up. What he found in the night sky forced a bitter laugh.
"What's so amusing?" Alfred asked.
Matt jabbed a finger at the gibbous moon. "It's the same moon as the night I got blown back here."
"It certainly is," Alfred said with a nod. "It's as inescapable as the earth we stand on. We can't quit the moon, we can't quit the earth, and we can't quit our own skin."
The strange talk puzzled Matt. "What's that supposed to mean?"
"I can't quit being Alfred Jongler," the slight man replied. Sometimes I wish I could. Sometimes I wish I had never inherited this unusual instrument and the burden that comes with it. Sometimes I wish Iris Jongler-Jinks had never played this thing and sent you here. But here you are, forcing me to be who I am."
Alfred's quiet confession released a tremor in Matt, awakening his own doubts. "I get what you're saying. But what if football isn't part of who I am?"
"Maybe it isn't. Maybe that's what you're here to find out."
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- PublisherMCP Books
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1635051851
- ISBN 13 9781635051858
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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