![]() Before Gideon and the children have a chance to gather their wits, the Tar Man takes off with the machine-and Peter and Kate’s only chance of getting home. Peter Schock and Kate Dyer have fallen straight from the twenty-first century, thanks to a faulty experiment with an antigravity machine. Suddenly the sky peels away like fabric, and from the gaping hole fall two curious-looking children. Gideon Seymour, thief and gentleman, is hiding from the villainous Tar Man. Particular interest to young adolescents and their teachers.Travel to criminal underworld of eighteenth-century London in this start to a trilogy that Entertainment Weekly calls “a rollicking historical adventure.” J-Recommended for junior high school students. Readers will be eager for the sequel to thisĮxciting time travel adventure, which features lots of danger, action,Īnd humor as well as a carefully detailed evocation of life in another Trilogy finds the Tar Man transported back to Peter's era-and Meanwhile, back in the 21st century, their parents areįrantically trying to locate them. Life, from foodstuffs like calf's head pie to the horrors of Interesting characters, Peter and Kate learn all about 18th-century ![]() London, encountering highwaymen and King George III, among other Gideon, a former thief himself, if they want to have any chance of The Tar Man, a ruthlessĬriminal, steals the machine, and Peter and Kate must accept the help of ![]() Modern-day 12-year-olds Peter and Kate suddenly are transported toĮngland in 1763, courtesy of an accident with Kate's father'sĪnti-gravity machine, which also makes the trip. To quote the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, September 2006: (The Gideon Trilogy,īook One.) Previously published as Gideon the Cutpurse.
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