When he goes to spend the summer with his great-aunt in the family's old house, eleven-year-old Drew is drawn eighty years into the past to trade places with his great-great-uncle who is dying of diphtheria.
Bluebonnet Award Winner and Master List
1995-1996
Alien Secrets by Annette Curtis Klause | Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave by Marianna Mayer
Best School Year Ever by Barbara Robinson | Big Bug Book by Margery Facklam | Bigger by Patricia Calvert
Dark Stairs by Betsy Byars | Face in Bessledorf Funeral Parlor by Phyllis Rreynolds Naylor
Hero of Bremen by Margareet Hodges | Jackson Jones and the Puddle of Thorns by Mary Quattlebaum | Jim-Dandy by Hadley Irwin
Mummies & Their Mysteries by Charlotte WIlcox
Piñata Maker/El Piñatero by George Ancona | Short Walk Around the Pyramids and Through the World of Art by Philip M. Isaacson
Skylark by Patricia MacLachlan | Smoky Night by Eve Bunting
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson | Sweetest Fig by Chris Van Allsburg
Uncle Jed's Barbershop by Margaree King Mitchell | Wainscott Weasel by Tor Seidler