Throwback

Everyone always says Corey has an active imagination.  He seems to see things no one else does and say things no other 13 year old would say.  He kind of hates when people say that.

One day as he's looking at an old photo at his best friend Leila's house, he suddenly finds himself in the past!  Talking to the guy from the photo!  It turns out he doesn't just have an active imagination; he has the ability to travel in time.

That's when his grandfather, who's been missing for a few years, reappears to explain things.  Corey inherited the time travel ability from Papou.  All he needs is something metal from the time he wants to travel to.  Just focus on it, and POOF, you're there!

That's when Corey has an idea.  He's never met his grandmother because she died on 9/11.  His grandfather has tried many times to save her, but it never works.  One of the rules of time travel is you can't change the past.  It's generally accepted that no time traveler has the ability to change things, but there are legends about throwbacks, rare time travelers who can change the past and affect the future.  Corey is a throwback, and he wants to save his grandmother.

What starts as a quest to save his grandmother in 2001 leaves Corey stranded in 1917.  Corey has to find a way to get back to the present; he's not cut out for a life on the gang-riddled streets.  You can't die before you were ever born, right?

This series opener by Peter Lerangis is a fast paced adventure.  There are some bizarre things you just have to accept and move on, like the side effects of too much time travel.  You somehow turn into an extinct animal from earth's past.  Umm...ok.  I'll go with it for now.  Corey's adventures in 1917 are pretty intense, and he comes close to death more than once.  Fans of adventure and time travel will enjoy this one!