โAn enjoyable, compelling read. Much like Caroline B. Cooneyโs Both Sides of Timeโ from the author of Los Gatos Black on Halloween (School Library Journal).
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โI helped you. Now you help me.โ
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As fourteen-year-old Allison Blair lies comatose in the hospital, she hears in her head the voice of Becky Lee Thompson, pleading for help and pulling Allison back in time to 1906โand into Beckyโs body. But why? Is it to prevent Beckyโs tragic death, or the death of Joshua, the boy who loves her? Allison must remain in the pastโfortified by her own growing feeling for Joshua, and Beckyโs willโto make sense of the layers of mystery, blackmail, and mistaken identity so that history will be altered.
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Beckyโs spirit struggles to keep Allisonโs body alive. Can Allison save Becky and Joshua and return to her own body before time runs out?
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โFans of both mysteries and time-slip stories will like the novel, which is liberally spiced with romance and melodrama, and clarifies a bit of intriguing and tragic California history.โโBooklist