Sammy Brown, winner of the first junior sailing
regatta for kids, ages twelve to
fourteen, is walking on air Tuesday, after being absent the previous day, due
to the race. Miss Wickware, her history teacher, asks Sammy to stay after class
because she needs to draw a subject out of a box and give an oral report on the
drawn subject.
“UHG” History
and Sammy are not friends, but her good mood won’t be dampened until a fall and
a bump on the head sends her back to 1814. It’s her expertise in sailing that
allows Francis Scott Key to rescue an imprisoned friend from a British ship
that leads to a historic battle and a famous poem!
A
full moon lit up the bedroom. Sammy lay
on the feather mattress in the dark, staring at the ceiling. The window was wide open, a breeze stirring
the curtains, though it did nothing to take away the mugginess of the night
air. The nightgown Sarah had given Sammy
was drenched with sweat and it stuck to her like a second skin.
She
got up and walked to the balcony. Dr.
Beanes had been right about his wife.
Sarah had sat Sammy down and got her a bowl of left over wild turkey and
boiled sweet potatoes, which she inhaled.
The
older woman tisked her tongue and her head shook in sympathy, distressed at the
poor girl’s story. “Your mother must be
worried beyond belief,” Sarah said.
“Oh,
I’m sure she’s freaking out all over the place,” Sammy snorted. “And like she’ll ever buy this story!”
“I
don’t understand. You write stories to
sell to your freakish mother?”
Sammy
had to chuckle at that one. “No. She’s
just going to kill me.”
Outraged,
the woman came to her feet. “She will do
no such thing. William will make sure
that you are safe!”
Staring
into the night, Sammy smiled at the memory.
She had assured Sarah it was only a saying, but the woman did not seem
convinced.
The
sound of horses, riding up to the Beanes’ home, brought Sammy out of her
reverie. At least ten men, all in red
coats, jumped off their horses and headed toward the house.
A
serving girl tapped on Sammy’s door before opening it. “Please ma’am, Mistress Beanes would like you
to come to her room, quickly.” She
turned to lead the way without waiting for a reply, Sammy, hurrying to catch
up.
The
scene that greeted Sammy when the bedroom opened had the hairs on the back of
her neck, not only standing straight out at attention, but screaming “run…hide…wake
up!” Goose bumps broke out on her
sweaty body.
Dr.
Beanes was sitting on a chair putting on his shoes while Sarah was wringing her
hands and pale as the snow-white nightgown she was wearing.
Before
Sammy could utter a word a BANG BANG BANG came from the door downstairs and
that’s when all hell broke loose!
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Bumped Back In Time is Book Four of the Wickware Sagas. There are four more stories of students in Miss Wickware’s history class that find themselves transported back in time to meet the object of their school reports.
Billy Cooper's Awesome Nightmare
Ride of a Lifetime
Flash to the Past
From Riches to Rags
Check them all out at…
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The Wickware Sagas also comes in a printed version with all five stories!
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