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    Saving Lucas Biggs
    Saving Lucas Biggs
    Saving Lucas Biggs
    Audiobook7 hours

    Saving Lucas Biggs

    Written by Marisa de los Santos and David Teague

    Narrated by Angela Goethals, Steven Kaplan and Josh Hurley

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    Perfect for fans of The Thing About Jellyfish, Echo, and Hour of the Bees, this charming time-travel story from husband-and-wife team Marisa de los Santos and David Teague follows one girl's race to change the past in order to save her father's future.

    Thirteen-year-old Margaret knows her father is innocent, but that doesn't stop the cruel Judge Biggs from sentencing him to death. Margaret is determined to save her dad, even if it means using her family's secret—and forbidden—ability to time travel.

    With the help of her best friend, Charlie, and his grandpa Josh, Margaret goes back to a time when Judge Biggs was a young boy and tries to prevent the chain of events that transformed him into a corrupt, jaded man. But with the forces of history working against her, will Margaret be able to change the past? Or will she be pushed back to a present in which her father is still doomed?

    Told in alternating voices between Margaret and Josh, this heartwarming story shows that sometimes the forces of good need a little extra help to triumph over the forces of evil.

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateApr 29, 2014
    ISBN9780062337436
    Author

    Marisa de los Santos

    Marisa de los Santos is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning poet with a PhD in literature and creative writing. She lives in Wilmington, Delaware, with her family.

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    • 4/5
      Two children facing family crises created by the domineering Victory energy company team up to try to change history in this time-travel adventure. Great characters, and a story that focuses more on history and realistic steps to create change than magical abilities. Fantastic!

      Advanced reader copy provided by edelweiss.
    • 2/5
      middlegrade fiction (innocent father gets death penalty so daughter decides to time travel in order to turn the judge back into a good guy). I got to p. 47 in this (ch.4) but didn't feel like continuing, though I do have respect for the author/illustrators (even if no cookie-eating dinosaurs ever show up--oh wait, that's Mark Teague I'm thinking of).
    • 4/5
      ..."...sure, the past matters - but the present? The present is here and here and here, a sky full of light, a path under your feet, your hair lifted by the wind... All you have to do is set fear aside and stretch out your hand." Sometimes the best way to change history is working towards it right here in the present.
    • 4/5
      Saving Lucas Biggs by Marisa de los Santos and David Teague proves that hope and love are greater than time.Margaret O'Malley's father is sentenced to death by Judge Briggs. Her father makes her promise that she won't time travel. You see, her family has the ability to see where time has holes and are able to go through these. They swear, however, to live in the here and now because "history resists." Margaret's best friend is Charlie and he will help her in anyway he can. He brings her to his Uncle Josh. Uncle Josh knows that she can time travel and convinces her this is the right course of action. Margaret has to use the past and present to make everything right--give it equilibrium. Time resists but it allows some things to squeeze through to set things right. It doesn't take changing the past to change; it's changing one's heart through love. Making excuses or believing that if things could have been different do not work. There's always a chance things can change in the present if action in love is taken. This is a novel about being green and believing in the power of love. Great message and a lovely story.