Echo Desjardins, a 13 year old girl, is adjusting to a new home and school and struggling with loneliness while separated from her mother. Then an ordinary day in Mr. Bee's class turns extraordinary, and Echo finds herself transported to another time and place--a bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie--and back again to the present. As Echo slips back and forth in time, she visits a Metis camp, travels the old fur-trade routes, and experiences the...

"Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II. These displacements keep occurring until Kiku finds herself stuck back in time. Living alongside her young grandmother and other Japanese-American citizens in internment camps, Kiku gets the education she never received in history class. She...