![]() ![]() Without spoiling, Amber attempts to set some things straight with her modern knowledge, often feeling the wrath of Mrs. ![]() Both kids get thrown in orphanages of their respective era, attempting to figure out how to get back. ![]() Ada learns that the future world is a complicated place with a whole host of other problems, while Amber quickly realizes that life wasn’t an Anne of Green Gables fairytale. There’s a bit of displacement at first from both character, which I do give the author credit to delving into rather than just dismissing or glossing over it. ![]() Amber gets whisked to the past, Ada to to the future. Both girls find a magical well in a patch of woods, throwing down a coin and making their wish. Each girl is fed up with their current time Ada wants to live in a future where women have more freedom and are appreciated, while Amber wants to live in a past where kids aren’t shuffled around with their parents, where moms were only allowed to be moms living in big houses. Ada is from 1891, while Amber is from 1991. The story follows two girls, Ada and Amber. When I was looking for time travel books for kids, this somewhat prominent book from the 90’s appeared in my search results from Amazon. When I started to collect books in 2013, I had bought a batch of “books” loosely related to my interests at the time. ![]()
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