TY - SER
KW - Native Americans
KW - French and Indian War
KW - teenagers
KW - John Forbes (1707-59)
KW - orphans
KW - time travel
KW - Scottish Highlanders
KW - genealogy
AU - Jane Louise Curry
AB - Maggie Gilmour, 16, shadows a friend, Kip Maclean, who is recently orphaned by a tragic fire and despondent.  When she follows him to Allegheny Mountain near their high school, she is shocked to chance on a portal that leads them both back to 1758 and the Forbes Expedition.  The novel peaks when Kip decides to abandon the present and to join a clan of 1750s Lenape Indians who are still moving west from the Delaware River Valley to the Forks of the Ohio.  Maggie struggles to save Kip without disturbing the dynamics of history.
C1 - 1758-1990s
C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Ohio River; Pittsburgh; Downtown; Ft. Duquesne; Bedford County; Bedford; Somerset County; Shade Creek (tributary); Westmoreland County; Ligonier
C4 - Children’s; Young Adult; Historical; Fantasy; Science Fiction; War
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - Settings are referred to by their historical names as follows: Bedford is Raystown; Ligonier is Loyal Hanna.
N2 - Maggie Gilmour, 16, shadows a friend, Kip Maclean, who is recently orphaned by a tragic fire and despondent.  When she follows him to Allegheny Mountain near their high school, she is shocked to chance on a portal that leads them both back to 1758 and the Forbes Expedition.  The novel peaks when Kip decides to abandon the present and to join a clan of 1750s Lenape Indians who are still moving west from the Delaware River Valley to the Forks of the Ohio.  Maggie struggles to save Kip without disturbing the dynamics of history.
PB - Margaret K. McElderry Books
PP - New York
PY - 1998
RN - Jane Louise Curry (1932— ) was born in East Liverpool, Ohio, and grew up in Kittanning, Armstrong County and Johnstown, Cambria County. She studied at Penn State, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, UCLA, the University of London, and Stanford. She's written over 30 books for children and teens, especially plots that feature, she says, “time slips into the past, mystery, danger, and narrow escapes.” She divides her time between London and Los Angeles.
EP - 168 p.
TI - Dark Shade
ER -