Synopses & Reviews
Allie and Fig wish they were anywhere other than New York, where their mother lies in a hospital bed in a coma. One morning, with Pa acting like a pod person and Aunt Bijou trying out some sort of hug therapy, the twins escape across Central Park to the American Museum of Natural History. Sometimes the dioramas there seem so real that the animals look alive, the trees so green one can almost smell them. In a room theyve never been in before, they discover the Lynx scene, its diorama depicting the same European forest where their mother had her accident. The twins start spinning and then, dizzily, they jump. Instead of feeling the cold, hard glass of the diorama, they hear birds, feel sunlight. Suddenly they are in the forest. But when are they there? And how can they get home again? Its scary, but maybe, just maybe, the twins can change the past so that the horrible cave-in never happens, so their mother is fine again, and the bad, sad, mad time never comes at all. The carousel of time keeps spinning, and Allie and Fig must put together the clues and follow their hearts back through the past to Mim and Pa and Aunt Bijou.
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"The children's trip to the Ice Age provides the backdrop for some tantalizing thought experiments about time, love, and the importance of family."
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"Children will enjoy this fast-paced, entertaining story."
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"An enjoyable ride for fans of science-tinged fantasy."
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"Luli Gray brews up another compelling fantasy concoction."
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Children will enjoy this fast-paced, entertaining story.” Booklist, ALA
The childrens trip to the Ice Age provides the backdrop for some tantalizing thought experiments about time, love, and the importance of family.” The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
An enjoyable ride for fans of science-tinged fantasy.” Kirkus Reviews
Luli Gray brews up another compelling fantasy concoction.” Publishers Weekly
About the Author
Luli Gray belongs to a family for whom, she says, "reading and writing are as necessary as breathing." Born in Argentina, and for years a resident of New York City, she now lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Falcon and the Charles Street Witch is the sequel to her first novel, Falcon's Egg which received rave reviews and was an ALA Notable Children's Book for 1995 and a School Library Journal Best Book of 1996.