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The Corkscrew App
Justin Deveraux is a bold fourteen-year-old. As quarterback of the football team, his audacity costs his team the championship. Outwardly Justin is calm, and he doesn’t view the blunder as his fault. On the inside, he fears rejection and wonders why his father has distanced himself from Justin and his mother.
Through the inadvertent use of his father’s Cyber Phone, Justin unleashes the Corkscrew app, a secret time warp. It throws him back to the Pennsylvania frontier of 1754. He meets twenty-two-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George Washington of the Virginia militia seeking to make a name for himself at Fort Necessity. Justin is almost as distraught over what he learns about young Washington as the predicament in which he finds himself.
Justin’s return to the twenty-first century lies in the hands of two of the many fascinating colonial characters whom he encounters. Captain Adam Stephen isn’t fooled by Justin’s improvised story of amnesia. Tanaghrisson, the Mingo chieftain, covets the cell phone that brought Justin back in time. The native leader views the “lighted stone” as a means to strengthen his power among various tribes. Both exert their own pressures on the boy.
As if five weeks of horrific adventures on the eighteenth century frontier wasn’t enough, Justin is betrayed upon his return. His ultimate safety rests with Crescent Moon, a man with the mind of a brilliant physicist and the heart of a warrior who is determined to change recorded history.
Throughout all of his experiences, Justin develops a greater admiration of his father and a deeper understanding of the man known as the “Father of Our Country”. More importantly, Justin learns more about himself.
Through the inadvertent use of his father’s Cyber Phone, Justin unleashes the Corkscrew app, a secret time warp. It throws him back to the Pennsylvania frontier of 1754. He meets twenty-two-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George Washington of the Virginia militia seeking to make a name for himself at Fort Necessity. Justin is almost as distraught over what he learns about young Washington as the predicament in which he finds himself.
Justin’s return to the twenty-first century lies in the hands of two of the many fascinating colonial characters whom he encounters. Captain Adam Stephen isn’t fooled by Justin’s improvised story of amnesia. Tanaghrisson, the Mingo chieftain, covets the cell phone that brought Justin back in time. The native leader views the “lighted stone” as a means to strengthen his power among various tribes. Both exert their own pressures on the boy.
As if five weeks of horrific adventures on the eighteenth century frontier wasn’t enough, Justin is betrayed upon his return. His ultimate safety rests with Crescent Moon, a man with the mind of a brilliant physicist and the heart of a warrior who is determined to change recorded history.
Throughout all of his experiences, Justin develops a greater admiration of his father and a deeper understanding of the man known as the “Father of Our Country”. More importantly, Justin learns more about himself.
327 pages, Paperback
Published March 2, 2016
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About the author
Max Willi Fischer
6 books6 followersAfter four decades in teaching and having authored a dozen teacher resource books, Max Willi Fischer set out to enrich young people's understanding of history via a new career in writing. He believes that historical fiction can better bring to life the people and events of an era as opposed to the dry pages of textbooks. A cornerstone in his writing is that human nature is the common link that binds modern society to the peoples of the past.
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