Throwback, Peter Lerangis
Throwback, Peter Lerangis
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Throwback

Author: Peter Lerangis

Narrator: Nile Bullock

Unabridged: 6 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 10/01/2019


Synopsis

2019 Bank Street College of Education's ""Best Children's Books of the Year"" 
Peter Lerangis, the New York Times bestselling author of the Seven Wonders and Max Tilt series, returns with an electrifying new trilogy about a boy who discovers that he alone may be able to alter the course of history.Corey Fletcher has an active imagination. He sees things no one else does. Cracks jokes no one else gets. And goes places few would ever dare go. Like the past.All he needs is a metal artifact from a point in time, and Corey can go there. Although hundreds of time travelers live in secret throughout the world, including Corey's own grandfather, none has the ability to change past events.But when Corey accidentally saves a life while time traveling, he realizes that he is the first-ever “Throwback,” with the power to alter life as we know it. Which means his own life is now in all sorts of danger.This is the first book in a thrilling, edge-of-your-seat adventure series from New York Times bestselling author Peter Lerangis, whose books have sold over five and a half million copies worldwide.

About Peter Lerangis

Peter Lerangis is the author of more than one hundred and seventy books, which have sold more than six-and-a-half million copies and been translated into thirty-five different languages. These include the five books in the New York Times bestselling Seven Wonders series, The Colossus Rises, Lost in Babylon, The Tomb of Shadows, The Curse of the King, and The Legend of the Rift; two books in the 39 Clues series; and the Max Tilt and Throwback trilogies. He lives in New York City with his family.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Darla

Loved the NYC setting and the 9/11 story line. Unfortunately, the two extra time hops had too many confusing action scenes. The situation with the two time travelers who have transformed into mutant animals seemed unnecessary and distracting. Corey also assumes a girl in 1917 is gender-fluid just be......more

Goodreads review by Liz

The story: When Corey learns he's inherited the family ability to travel through time, he also finds out that he's a "throwback"--one of the few time travelers with the ability to alter the past and thereby affect the future. His first mission: to rescue the grandmother he's never known, who died on......more

Goodreads review by Julia

I got this book 3 years ago and put off reading it until now. I love Peter lerangis' books and I knew I would love this one. And I did!......more

Goodreads review by Joe

I love the character interactions and the depiction of historical New York City in this middle-grade time-travel adventure, but it's maybe a bit overstuffed with plot. (The hero is nominally trying to save his grandmother from dying on September 11th, but he spends most of the narrative stuck in 191......more