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Sweet Secrets in Pennsylvania (Just in Time Book 2) Kindle Edition

by Cheri Pray Earl (Author), Carol Lynch Williams (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Hershey, Pennsylvania 1907: George and Gracie must return an antique rug and rescue their parents. When the time machine lands them smack dab in the middle of a barn, George turns into . . . something pretty weird. And Gracie drives a car into a fence. They meet Milton Hershey, the chocolate king, who invites them to be his chocolate tasters. But when George and Gracie discover a plot to steal Mr. Hershey s perfect and secret chocolate recipe, they put themselves in danger to stop the thieves. Meanwhile, the evil villain, Crowe, is two steps from catching them and their time machine and he's closing in!

JUST IN TIME series:
The Rescue Begins in Delaware
Sweet Secrets in Pennsylvania
Wizard of Menlo Park, New Jersey
A Dangerous Day in Georgia

About the Authors:
Cheri Pray Earl graduated with her master's degree in creative writing from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1995 and has taught creative writing and literature courses for the BYU Honors Program and the English Department for more than 25 years. She was awarded BYU Honors Professor of the Year in 2005 which she brags about every chance she gets. Cheri writes the middle-grade novel series, Just In Time, with Carol Lynch Williams and published a non-fiction children’s book for American Girl in 2009, co-authored with the late Rick Walton. But in real life she writes young adult and adult novels. She won her first real writing contest, the Utah Original Writing Competition, in 1994 for her YA novel, Flat Like Me, and took Honorable Mention in 1997 for her YA novel, The Swan. She’s currently working on an adult mystery novel and a contemporary adult novel. Cheri’s most recent children’s book, Mr. Dietsche, is a middle-grade novel based on her childhood in Dodge City, Kansas that her agent, Steve Fraser from JDLIT, is this very minute shopping around. That’s Secret Agent Steve.See more of Cheri's stories at dustingforfingerprints.wordpress.com

Carol Lynch Williams is the author of more than 30 books for middle grade and young adult readers. Her novels include The Chosen One, Never that Far, Messenger and Never Said. Her most recent book is the novelization of the movie Once I Was a Beehive. Carol has an MFA from Vermont College in Writing for Children and Young Adults and teaches creative writing at BYU. She runs Writing and Illustrating for Young Readers, a week-long writing conference for the not-faint-of-heart writer (www.wifyr.com). As well she is a mentor for those who want to write for kids and teens. Her best creative effort, however, are her five daughters.

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"Just in Time" has time travel, sibling rivalry, humor and American history all wrapped into an adventure both parents and kids will adore.
--Liesl Shurtliff, author of "Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin"
""Kids are going to enjoy this fast-paced, sometimes funny and always heartfelt, adventure that blurs science fiction with history. George and Gracie are heroes for the ages--past and present. Can they save their parents? Only time will tell."" --Kathi Appelt, Newbery Honor winner of The Underneath

"Kids are going to enjoy this fast-paced, sometimes funny and always heartfelt, adventure that blurs science fiction with history. George and Gracie are heroes for the ages past and present. Can they save their parents? Only time will tell." Kathi Appelt, Newbery Honor winner ofThe Underneath

""Just in Time" has time travel, sibling rivalry, humor and American history all wrapped into an adventure both parents and kids will adore. Liesl Shurtliff, author of"Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin""

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Carol Lynch Williams is the author of more than 25 books for kids and teen readers. She runs Writing and Illustrating for Young Readers (in it s 13th year), has an MFA in Writing for Children and Adolescents from Vermont College and writes on an active blog with fellow writers Ann Dee Ellis and Kyra Leigh Williams (www.throwingupwords.wordpress.com). She teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University and has garnered several writing related awards (Utah Arts Original Writing Contest, Nebraska Golden Sower Award, ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant YA Readers, ALA Best Books for Young Adults, PEN Award Nominee, Children s Literature Choice List, HM for Newton Books Best Books of the Year, IRA Teacher s Choice book, Selected Book for the Social Studies, Five-star Amazon Books Reader s Review, Top Ten Romance Book for Booklist, Book for the Teen-Age New York Public Library List, Children s Book Council Showcase, AML Winner Children s Category, Top Ten Barnes and Noble Book, Book for the Teen-Age List New York Public Library List, PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, Whitney Award, Scholastic Book Pick for Humor, Audie Winner, and has had books on many state reading lists.). She is proudest of her five daughters who are the Carol s best creative effort, ever. She and Cheri have been best friends for almost 20 years.

Cheri Pray Earl graduated with her M.A. in Creative Writing from Brigham Young University in 1995 and has taught writing and literature courses for the BYU Honors Program and English Creative Writing Program for the past 20 years; she was awarded BYU Honors Professor of the Year in 2005 (which she brags about whenever she can).She published a non-fiction children s book for American Girl co-authored with Rick Walton in 2009, but in real life she writes young adult novels; she won the Utah Original Writing Competition in 1994 for the YA novel, Flat Like Me, and took Honorable Mention in 1997 for the YA novel, The Swan. Her newest novel, Mr. Ditchy, is at Agent Steve s house. Secret Agent Steve. "

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07X57MJSJ
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mirror Press (October 1, 2019)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 1, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4962 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 141 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1947152726

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Carol Lynch Williams, who grew up in Florida and now lives in Utah, is an award-winning novelist with five daughters of her own.
She has an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College. She won the prestigious PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship for her novel GLIMPSE and was nominated for the PEN for her book THE TRUE COLORS OF CAITLYNNE JACKSON. THE CHOSEN ONE was named one of the ALA’s Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers and Best Books for Young Adult Readers.
Her books have been featured on numerous lists of recommended YA fiction. Carol’s other novels include MILES FROM ORDINARY, THE HAVEN, WAITING, SIGNED-SKYE HARPER, MESSENGER, ONCE I WAS A BEEHIVE, NEVER SAID, NEVER THAT FAR, PRETTY LIKE US as well as 15 more books for young readers.
The best thing she has ever done, and what she is most proud of, is raising her five daughters.
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Cheri Pray Earl
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"When I’m not teaching literature or creative writing classes, cleaning house, walking my dogs, or hanging out with my family, I write novels."
Cheri Pray Earl has taught creative writing and literature courses for the BYU Honors Program and English Department for more than 26 years. She was awarded BYU Honors Professor of the Year in 2005 which she brags about every chance she gets. But when she isn't teaching others how to write and read literature, she writes novels and lyric essays (short memoir-ish pieces). She is currently working on the middle-grade novel series, Just In Time (on Amazon) with Carol Lynch Williams. Cheri’s most recent children’s book, Mr. Dietsche, is a middle-grade novel based on her childhood in Dodge City, Kansas that her agent, Steve Fraser from JDLIT, is shopping around (that’s Secret Agent Steve). . . so stay tuned.
On her own, Cheri writes young adult and adult novels and lyric essays (short memoir essays). Her secret love, though, is murder and mayhem stories, and she's trying something new and hard but loads of fun: she writes mystery novels out loud, so to speak, on her mystery blog and on her Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/cheriprayearl). That means she writes and posts each segment of a story as she writes it, with little editing, AND she figures out the direction the stories will go at the same as her readers do. Scary hard work . . . but she loves it. If you'd like to follow along, you can read the first mystery novel--The Last Minute Boarder--in progress on dustingforfingerprints.wordpress.com and the second and latest mystery novel, Lavender, on her Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/cheriprayearl). She's also writing away on an adult novel that Is. Not. About. Murder. And. Mayhem. The End.
See more of Cheri's stories at dustingforfingerprints.wordpress.com and patreon.com/cheriprayearl. Watch for her upcoming memoir blog about living life amid hard things, A Settled Peace (asettledpeace.wordpress.com).
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Ernest Robertson

This is a fantastic series with fun illustrations

Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2014

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This is a fantastic series with fun illustrations! If you have kids who are fans of the "Magic Tree House" and are looking for more time travel adventures that are history lessons as well as entertaining stories, you might want to give this a try.

Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2013

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I went to the Milton Hershey school and read all there is to know about Milton Hershey and it was a fun read to have this type of perspective on how he would have been in this situation. Very enjoyable.

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Ballet in AK

Time Travel to learn about each State (6-10 year olds)

Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2019

Sweet Secrets in Pennsylvania by Cheri Pray Earl and Carol Lynch Williams (3.5 stars)

A really fun book for learning about the various States a la Magic Treehouse but with more variations thrown in.

George and Gracie find out that their parents and Grandfather have been time traveling and bringing items from the past to put in their museum.

The time machine has trapped their parents in the past (Grandpa is in the present taking care of them) and the only way to rescue the parents is to return all the items.

This leads to adventures in history.

The only problems are that there’s a bad guy named Crowe trying to get the machine away from them, the machine changes what it is every time it travels through time, and the kids don’t always keep their human shapes. (In this installment, George is a rat!)

There’s a historical epilogue given by Gracie and George at the end, telling the facts of the story that they hadn’t known whilst in the the middle of it.

A fun, middle grades book that has the kids accidentally helping Mr. Hershey (of Hershey’s candy bars) discover his secret recipe for milk chocolate.

In the first installment of the series, the readers learned a bit about the signing of the Declaration of Independence. I didn’t see a whole lot of educational value in this one, just a fun story. The educational bit happens in the epilogue.

George and Gracie’s dialogue is delightful, truly capturing how a brother and sister talk to each other.

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Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2019

This is a fun time travel novel for kids. While I read it as an adult, I think kids will get a kick out of the fact that when twins George and Gracie time travel, one of them ends up as animal (in this case, George is a rat). The historical information in the book--with Milton Hershey trying to perfect his chocolate recipe and posting spies--is interesting, as is the additional historical information at the end of the book. Cute story that I'll enjoy sharing with my kids when they're just a little older.

I read a copy provided by the publisher. All opinions are my own.

Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2016

love HErshey

Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2019

Rating: 4.5 stars

What engaged me in the story:

• Gracie and George were fun, likeable characters.
• I liked the banter between Gracie and George. It had a realistic feel.
• I like the concept of time travel. It is a great way to present history.
• I liked that the authors had a write up at the end with true facts about Henry Hershey and Pennsylvania.
• Did not read the first book, but I did not feel lost reading this book in the series. This book can stand alone.
• I'm an adult, but I really enjoyed this book. I feel my granddaughter would enjoy it.

I was given an advance copy by the author. My review was voluntary and my opinions were my own.

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Luci

Cute book for children

Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2019

This is a cute story with time travel, villains and adventure all wrapped in a fun way of learning history!
I enjoy the premise and realize the creative license allows for the funny outcomes as the two main characters are transported through time. I think it is humorous that the true historical characters are so forgiving of this feature!
I think it is a creative and enjoyable story.
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Pennie cowley

The best bet time story in a long time.

Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2019

I read this book with my 10 and 13 year old daughters. We found it delightful. It was so fun to see there eyes light up with excitement in anticipation of what was cumming next or crack up in laughter at some of the witty banter between the two siblings. We will be quoting lines from this book for a long time. We are eagerly waiting for the next one to come out.

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