“Andrea won’t get time sick like you did. “Katherine!” Jonah interrupted, because he could put up with Katherine’s babbling for only so long. “When we went back to 1483 with Chip and Alex, I thought I was going to throw up for sure. “Only, if you get time sick, that’s no fun,” Katherine rambled on, flipping her blond ponytail over her shoulder. Shouldn’t she be asking questions? Shouldn’t she at least act like she cared? She didn’t know what time period she was going to, or what she’d have to do there.

But unlike Katherine and Jonah, Andrea had never traveled to the past before. Normally Jonah would have approved of that-he tried to ignore his younger sister as much as possible too. She had her eyes focused on the blank wall across from her and barely seemed to be paying attention to Katherine. She sat perfectly still, and so did her chair. “You don’t have to hold your breath or anything to travel through time. Indeed, Andrea was the most important time traveler that day. You’d think, with time travel, there wouldn’t have to be any waiting, he thought grumpily.īeside him, his eleven-year-old sister, Katherine, bounced in her chair-making the chair bounce too-and chattered away to Andrea, the third kid who would be going to the past with them. He was sitting in a sterile, nearly empty room, waiting to travel back in time to an unknown era and unknown dangers. In another mood, Jonah would have been fascinated by this-how was the chair programmed? Did it have a computer chip making it squirm? But right now Jonah was too distracted. Jonah fidgeted in his seat, and his chair fidgeted right along with him.

Sabotaged by Margaret Peterson Haddix