| Tom and Betsy are working together again on another school project. They decide to use a time traveling machine, an invention of Tom's late grandfather, and they go back the past. They go back to a blizzard that happened near the Rocky Mountains years ago which killed many people.
They get stuck in the snow with a little girl,and can't escape with the time machine because it is frozen. It looks like time is running out again, only this time, will they survive? | ||
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Plot & Themes Tone of book - very upbeat FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - alternate history Explore/1st contact/ enviro story Yes Time Travel: - largely backwards/past Explore: Is this an adult or child's book? - Kid's book (ages 7-14) Time Travel story? Yes Descript. of chases or violence - 0 % planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30 % Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40 % Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 30 % Main Character Identity: - Male Profession/status: Age: - a teen Really unusual traits? Main Adversary Identity: - natural phenomena Setting Terrain Earth setting: - 20th century Takes place on Earth? Yes Writing Style Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog |
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