TY - SER
KW - Pennsylvania Railroad
KW - Cambria Iron Company
KW - teenagers
KW - Johnstown Flood of 1889
KW - time travel
AU - Peg Kehret
AB - Warren Spalding and Betsy Tyler visit 1880s Western Pennsylvania by way of a time-travel machine called the Instant Commuter, invented by Warren’s grandfather.  When the kids are first assigned a school report on the 1889 Johnstown Flood, each agrees that it is too dangerous to use the Instant Commuter.  Instead, they interview 95-year-old Doc Keeton, whose parents survived the flood.  However when they hear that Doc’s baby sister, Anna, had died in the flood, Betsy and Warren can’t resist time travel in order to change history and to save little Anna’s life.
C1 - 1889-1990s
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Cambria County; Little Conemaugh River; Lake Conemaugh; Johnstown; E. Conemaugh; South Fork; Westmoreland County; Ligonier
C4 - Children’s; Historical; Mystery; Disaster
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - Warren Spalding and Betsy Tyler visit 1880s Western Pennsylvania by way of a time-travel machine called the Instant Commuter, invented by Warren’s grandfather.  When the kids are first assigned a school report on the 1889 Johnstown Flood, each agrees that it is too dangerous to use the Instant Commuter.  Instead, they interview 95-year-old Doc Keeton, whose parents survived the flood.  However when they hear that Doc’s baby sister, Anna, had died in the flood, Betsy and Warren can’t resist time travel in order to change history and to save little Anna’s life.
PB - Pocket Books
PP - New York
PY - 1999
RN - Peg Kehret (1936— ) was born in Wisconsin and is the author of more than two dozen children's books.
EP - 147 p.
TI - The Flood Disaster
ER -