Elvira Woodruff

Has a mummy's spirit really moved into Andy's body?!

What do you do when it seems like everyone in your family has done something magnificent—everyone, that is, except you? That's Andy's problem. He just wants to do something special.

When his class visits an Egyptian exhibit, he figures it'll be just another field trip. But he's wrong, because somehow a mummy's spirit seems to have given him a weird magic power. Suddenly, Andy's

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The eleven-year-old son of the Ravenmaster at the Tower of London befriends a Jacobite rebel being held prisoner there.

"No wonder the cell phone says: 'Out of range.' Ten-year-old Matt Carlton and six friends have accidentally been swept back in time -- to Boston in 1776! The British occupy the city, and redcoat guards are everywhere! While the boys are being held captive by a den of Patriot spies, the girls have been taken in by a wealthy Tory family. The pox is rampant; danger lies around every corner -- and there's no hope for returning home to their own time....

In the early 1900s, two cousins leave their Russian shtetl with the rest of their family to come to America, hopeful that they will all pass the dreaded inspection at Ellis Island.

Marty receives a surprising reply when he writes a letter describing his spirited but sick grandfather to Napoleon Bonaparte.

After his family moves to a different part of town, Matthew tries to get back to his old house by trying on different pairs of wings in an unusual wing shop.