Time Travel at Jagged Rock Lighthouse
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“Bye,” I said, and placed my hand on top of the journal, just like before.
I closed my eyes. No flash.
I opened my eyes.
The Keeper was looking at me. “Was somethin’ supposed to happen?”
“Uh, yeah.” I put my hand on the journal again. Nothing. I began to get another creepy feeling.
I grabbed the journal and opened it. All of the entries after 1910 had disappeared.
“What’s wrong?” asked the Keeper.
I whipped through page after page. They were all blank. I put my palm on every page, but I remained in 1910. I slammed my fist down on the book and it crashed to the floor.
I looked up at the Keeper. “All of the pages from the future are gone.”
“Is that bad?”
Monster hands of fear grabbed me. “I think it means I’m trapped in 1910.”
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About the Book
A trip to Jagged Rock Lighthouse to take photos suddenly turns nightmarish for twelve-year-old Paige Johnson when she touches the first Lightkeeper’s journal and is whisked back to 1910. She can’t figure out how to get back to the present day. She meets Keeper Nels Christiansen, who isn’t sure she is from the future but doesn’t have any other explanation. So Paige, who is stuck there, has no choice but to start living the 1910 way, wearing long skirts, milking cows, and washing laundry in Lake Superior. She starts to enjoy the family and lighthouse-keeping. The Christiansens come to love her too. After many adventures, she is faced with two choices: If she goes back to her broken family in the present, she has the possibility of more time travel. If she remains with the Christiansens, who love her, she will be caught in their time forever. She must figure out the consequences of each choice and make her irrevocable decision. Which will she choose? Turn to the pages inside and find out.
About the Author
Nancy Bayne has been a writer for thirty years. She visited more than twenty lighthouses to research this book. Her photograph collection from these trips served as reference material for Time Travel at Jagged Rock Lighthouse. She wanted to write a time-travel book ever since she read A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle in school. She lives with her husband, her daughter, and her chocolate Labrador in Lincoln, Nebraska.