Okay, so I've already done the basics of the story without revealing any of the stuff you would rather learn as you read it for the courtesy of people who do want to read it themselves; now It's time to continue to what I really liked about the book, with the spoilers for the people who don't want to read it.
I'm going to start with this right off the bat. So you know how there's backdrops for the outsides of the rooms? Well, when Ruthie and jack shrink down, they aren't backdrops anymore. They're actually back in time! Which was actually rather stressful for me reading it because the two historical times they went to (in proper clothing they found) were barely pre-revolutionary France, and a town near Salem Massachusetts during the summer of the Witch Trials.
Oh yeah because those are just such safe places to be in when your practically time travelers who know barely enough history about the time you're in to not be hanged or arrested under some kind of suspicion. Seriously I get that the two of you are sixth graders but think about how dangerous the time period your going into is! Preferably before it's too late!
Anyway they get out fine and the two people they meet live through the historical problems so all is well.
Also two other plot lines are: Jack and his mom almost loosing their loft because she can't sell her paintings in time (solved by commissioning a huge mural in the school that will pay her off for a bit before her next fair thing she can sell at) and Mr. Bell's lost photo album. (Found in one of the miniature rooms. His daughter had found the key when she was about seven or eight and brought it there to look at after her mom died. Now he will show his photographs at the museum since the ones in that album were his favorite, of his family.)
I just really liked this book. It's apparently a series too, because there was one plot hole at the very end when Ruthie was given a fancy antique handbag by the lady at the antiques shop, who is a family friend, that gives her the same warm feeling the key did before it did it's magic. I guess I'll have to find out later!
I'm going to start with this right off the bat. So you know how there's backdrops for the outsides of the rooms? Well, when Ruthie and jack shrink down, they aren't backdrops anymore. They're actually back in time! Which was actually rather stressful for me reading it because the two historical times they went to (in proper clothing they found) were barely pre-revolutionary France, and a town near Salem Massachusetts during the summer of the Witch Trials.
Oh yeah because those are just such safe places to be in when your practically time travelers who know barely enough history about the time you're in to not be hanged or arrested under some kind of suspicion. Seriously I get that the two of you are sixth graders but think about how dangerous the time period your going into is! Preferably before it's too late!
Anyway they get out fine and the two people they meet live through the historical problems so all is well.
Also two other plot lines are: Jack and his mom almost loosing their loft because she can't sell her paintings in time (solved by commissioning a huge mural in the school that will pay her off for a bit before her next fair thing she can sell at) and Mr. Bell's lost photo album. (Found in one of the miniature rooms. His daughter had found the key when she was about seven or eight and brought it there to look at after her mom died. Now he will show his photographs at the museum since the ones in that album were his favorite, of his family.)
I just really liked this book. It's apparently a series too, because there was one plot hole at the very end when Ruthie was given a fancy antique handbag by the lady at the antiques shop, who is a family friend, that gives her the same warm feeling the key did before it did it's magic. I guess I'll have to find out later!
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