Sweet Secrets in Pennsylvania (Just in Time) - Softcover

Williams, Carol Lynch; Earl, Cheri Pray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1938301765 ISBN 13: 9781938301766

Publisher: Familius, 2013

Synopsis

In this next adventure, George and Gracie travel back in time to Hershey, Pennsylvania—1907. Their mission: to return an antique rug and rescue their parents. When the time machine lands them smack dab in the middle of a barn, George turns into . . . something pretty weird. And Gracie drives a car into a fence. They meet Milton Hershey, the chocolate king, who invites them to be his chocolate tasters. But when George and Gracie discover a plot to steal Mr. Hershey’s perfect—and secret—chocolate recipe, they put themselves in danger to stop the thieves. Meanwhile, the evil villain, Crowe, is two steps from catching them and their time machine—and he's closing in!

About this title

About the Author

Carol Lynch Williams is the author of more than 25 books for kids and teen readers. She runs Writing and Illustrating for Young Readers (in it’s 13th year), has an MFA in Writing for Children and Adolescents from Vermont College and writes on an active blog with fellow writers Ann Dee Ellis and Kyra Leigh Williams (www.throwingupwords.wordpress.com). She teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University and has garnered several writing related awards (Utah Arts Original Writing Contest, Nebraska Golden Sower Award, ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant YA Readers, ALA Best Books for Young Adults, PEN Award Nominee, Children’s Literature Choice List, “HM” for Newton Books Best Books of the Year, IRA Teacher’s Choice book, Selected Book for the Social Studies, Five-star Amazon Books Reader’s Review, Top Ten Romance Book for Booklist, Book for the Teen-Age New York Public Library List, Children’s Book Council Showcase, AML Winner Children’s Category, Top Ten Barnes and Noble Book, Book for the Teen-Age List New York Public Library List, PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, Whitney Award, Scholastic Book Pick for Humor, Audie Winner, and has had books on many state reading lists.). She is proudest of her five daughters who are the Carol’s best creative effort, ever. She and Cheri have been best friends for almost 20 years.
Cheri Pray Earl graduated with her M.A. in Creative Writing from Brigham Young University in 1995 and has taught writing and literature courses for the BYU Honors Program and English Creative Writing Program for the past 20 years; she was awarded BYU Honors Professor of the Year in 2005 (which she brags about whenever she can). She published a non-fiction children’s book for American Girl co-authored with Rick Walton in 2009, but in real life she writes young adult novels; she won the Utah Original Writing Competition in 1994 for the YA novel, Flat Like Me, and took Honorable Mention in 1997 for the YA novel, The Swan. Her newest novel, Mr. Ditchy, is at Agent Steve’s house. Secret Agent Steve.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

It Happened Just like This . . . I Swear
I’m George. And my sister’s name is Gracie.
Gracie is nine years old. So am I.  
We’re twins, but I’m older than she is by 5.75 minutes.
She’s taller than me by one and a half inches.
But I’m smarter by about 2 feet.
Gracie and I live with our grandpa. He’s a fix-it man. He works at the Stockton Museum of Just About Everything in American History. Our family’s museum.
Mom and Dad used to work here, too.
Except we haven’t seen them for two years. Since they found the time machine.
That’s when our trouble started.
Mom and Dad used the time machine to travel back in history. They bought really great stuff for our museum. Then they got trapped in time.  We never know where they are. Or where they are going to be. Or when.
We sure miss them. A lot.
Me and Gracie have a plan to get our parents back. We have to return all the stuff they bought for the Stockton museum. Then Mom and Dad can come home.
The problem is, now we have to ride in the time machine.
And we have another big problem. Mr. Crowe.
He’s stuck in time, too. He keeps following us.
He wants us to take him to his time in 1875. In our time machine.
But if we take him home before we return everything. Before we rescue our parents. We might never see Mom or Dad again.
And then we might get trapped in time, too.

About this edition

• Publisher: Familius
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1938301765
• ISBN 13: 9781938301766
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144
• Illustrator: Oliphant Manelle