Christine Potter Libri

It's not easy being Bean. Bean Donohue lives for her guitar, but her mom threw her out of the house during a snowstorm for singing. No way she's going to get permission to go see The Grateful Dead at the Fillmore East. Zak, her almost-boyfriend, will get drafted if he doesn't get into art school, pot makes Bean paranoid, and her best friend can't stop talking about sex. 1970's not for wimps-but neither was 1885...or 1945. So why does Bean keep sliding backwards in time?

Editor's Pick Just over a year ago, Bean and Zak headed for colleges two thousand miles apart, promising to write, but to see other people ... until Bean fell for the wrong guy and Zak fell off the planet. Now, Bean's got two weeks' worth of Zak's year-old letters that she still can't bear to open-and a broken heart. Her new best friend, a guy named Amp, wants her to read the letters and be done with it, but he may have his own reasons for that. When Sam shows up at Bean's school unexpectedly and Bean tumbles into the 19th century from the cellar of a ruined church, things start making a bizarre kind of sense. That is, if she can just fit all the pieces together again...

October, 1962It's almost Halloween, but something a lot scarier than ghosts is on everyone's mind: nuclear war. After President Kennedy's speech to the nation about the Cuban Missile Crisis, Grace Ingraham overhears her parents' plans to keep her safe. She'll be sent off to live with a wealthy uncle-in the nineteenth century. Gracie's from a family of Travelers, people who can escape into time. Too bad her mom and dad haven't Traveled since their honeymoon trip to the Lincoln Inauguration. So Grace will have to go alone-even though taking a wrong turn can have serious consequences: like heading for 1890, and ending up ...in 2018.