Passenger by Bracken, A.

NYT Bestseller list (chapter books for 10+) from January-May 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2016/02/07/young-adult-hardcover/?_r=0

Bracken, A. (January, 2016) .Passenger. Disney Hyperion Bracken Better World Books .Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.

Etta Spencer a violin prodigy is sent 100 years back to a ship owned by Nicholas Carter who was assigned to get Etta and deliver her to the Ironwoods, a powerful family living in the colonies. They have retrieved her only to send her back to return a stolen object of great fortune, the priceless astrolabe. She's performing in the Metropolitan in New York, where her mother works, when she is suddenly whisked away in time, accompanied by a strange girl. Sophia Ironwood, the girl, is a traveler too just like Etta. Sophia's grandfather, the Grand Master and head of the Ironwood family, has had Etta brought back in time because he wants her to find something that he says her mother stole from him. If she brings it back, he'll let her and her mother go. But Etta - and Nicholas Carter, who hijacked the ship that Etta had to be on to get to Grandfather Ironwood, won't let Ironwood get away with it so easily. Nicholas and Etta will travel between continents and time to find the missing object before anyone else does. Together she and Nicolas will travel on the look for clues left by the mysterious robber in order to save Etta's mother. It comes to be the clues that Etta's mother left her over time. The clues take them too many places, and Nicholas and Etta get to know each other. But as they get closer to the truth of their search, and the deadly game the Ironwoods are playing, treacherous forces threaten to separate Etta not only from Nicholas but from her path home. Nick and Etta is an interracial couple and at first Nick starts to notice his feelings for Etta he immediately puts himself into check because as a white woman, she’s off limits to him. Nick being involved with Etta could put their lives in jeopardy. Etta’s mom tried to kill her but then Sophia shows up and we find out she went against grandfather’s orders and is trying to take over. The reappearance of a character thought dead, more on the ‘wrinkles’ of time and the war between the Thorns and Ironwoods. Etta is going to have to make some tough decisions regarding her mother, Rose Linden, and what she feels for Nicholas.

Teachers pay Teachers website on the subject of time travel lesson plans for the book;

Time Travelers: The Colonial X Factor Grades 9-12

Conjecture, If-Then logic, SWOT analysis, and persuasive writing skills are honed in this unit. Research, analysis, and speculation will be a driving factor in this interesting unit. Students will examine today’s innovations and choose one that could benefit society much earlier as the students time-travel to deliver this information to someone in the colonial period. 8-10 week Project Based Learning Unit.

HISTORY QUESTERS Colonies Trek- a historical time traveling adventure

Time travel — Braxton Morgan had never heard of a secret app for that. But his suspicions, ignited by some pretty weird goings–on in his new history class, were confirmed by a click on Ms. McQuester’s electronic Q–Pad. With little warning, Braxton spirals back in time to the settlement of the 13 English colonies as the newest member of the History Questers Team. It seems that his teacher meant it literally when she said she preferred hands–on history lessons. On their trek through the Colonial Period the team meets some important people from the past, like Pocahontas and Benjamin Franklin, and becomes involved in real historical events—way more involved than they want their teacher to know.