Category: Fiction
Publisher: Talywain Press
ISBN-13: 9780974194264
Pub. Date: January 2008
Date Read: March 2008
Cobblers Eddy, Indiana is a place where farms thrive, children hop boxcars for play, and the whole town comes together for such things as a strawberry social. It’s home to sixteen year old Maggie, a high-spirited teen who enjoys spending the afternoons with her best friends, Tom, Gordie and Alfie.
Sure, Maggie may have to do her chores before going out for picnics with her friends but there’s nothing like living on the farm and plus she’s just beginning to find that she likes Tom a lot more than just as a friend. So when Maggie overhears her dad telling her mom about a big opportunity in New York she doesn’t care about the wealth her dad talks about or living in a Brownstone, whatever that is. She just doesn’t want to leave her birthplace.
After Maggie hears about the sacrifices her dad has had to make to live on the farm and give up his dream then she starts to understand. She’ll fully support her dad and the move but makes sure to wheedle out a promise from her dad that her best friends will be allowed to visit her in New York.
The family moves to New York and Maggie’s father becomes a superstar of Wall Street while Maggie’s mom finds it hard to get used to the new home. Meanwhile Maggie finds it hard to be away from her friends and sends out a letter to the boys urging them to visit her. The boys don’t even ask permission and soon are on a boxcar and on their way to see Maggie, but after a long and arduous journey, they find that their destination is New York but 58 years into the future. Will they be able to find Maggie? And, is she still the same? Will they be able to go back to 1926?
This is such a sweet, feel good kind of story about friendship and second chances. I was most anxious to see how the story would wrap up, and how the author was going to work out the time-travel aspects of the story and I wasn’t disappointed at all. This was a very enjoyable read.