Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Schmidt, G. Z. |
| Publisher: | Holiday House |
| Date: | 10/13/2020 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
An imaginative time travel mystery about a boy whose life is upeneded
with the arrival of a stranger and a magical promise.
Twelve-year-old Adam doesn’t mind living at his uncle’s bakery, theBiscuit Basket, on the Lower East Side in New York City. The warm,delicious smells of freshly baked breads and chocolate croissants makeevery day feel cozy, even if Adam doesn’t have many friends and hemisses his long dead parents very much.
When a mysterious butcheerful customer tells Adam that adventures await him, it’s too strangeto be true. But days later, an unbelievable, incredible thing travels back in time, first to Times Square in 1935, then a candlefactory fire in 1967.
But how are these moments related? What dothey have to do with his parents’ death? And why is a tall man with longeyebrows and a thin mustache following Adam’s every move?
In herdebut novel G. Z. Schmidt has crafted a world filled with serendipity,mystery, and adventure for readers of Roald Dahl and Lemony Snicket.
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