Qwerty Stevens Stuck in Time with
Benjamin Franklin by Dan Gutman
Summary:
After accidentally sucking Benjamin Franklin into the twenty-first-century of New Jersey with his Anytime Anywhere machine, thirteen-year-old Qwerty Stevens and his best friend almost wind up stuck in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776 when they try to send him back. This is a great book that blends fact and fiction into time-travel packed with twists and turns along with great characters.
Read it Again?
Yes, this is a fun book with all kinds to twists and turns about time travel and the fun exploration of history. It would be fun to do activities and research on time travelers.
Library Use:
This could book could be used in a unit about Benjamin Franklin and would be fun to do a mystery book club and read alouds with for 4th and 5th grade students. It would be fun to have book scavenger about time travel. I would also like to have students write their own stories about time travel and award a winner for the best story.
Reviews:
Qwerty, who discovered the Anytime Anywhere Machine in The Edison Mystery, accidentally causes the device to bring Benjamin Franklin into the twenty-first century. Qwerty and his friend Joey then travel back in time to witness the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The writing is breezy, but much of the novel's historical information is didactic, while its overdrawn villain seems straight out of a B-movie. Copyright 2003 of The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.
Gr. 4-7. In this funny sequel to Gutman's Qwerty Stevens Back in Time: The Edison Mystery (2001), Qwerty accidentally sets Thomas Edison's secret "Anytime Anywhere Machine" into action once again. The machine first transports Benjamin Franklin into Qwerty's bedroom, then returns him, along with Qwerty and his pal Joey, back to eighteenth-century Philadelphia. Franklin emerges as a colorful character with original opinions, a keen appreciation of modern technology, aphorisms for all occasions, and manners that charm even twenty-first-century women. Franklin's juxtaposition to the modern world, and particularly his visit to Qwerty's seventh-grade classroom, provides a great deal of humor as well as some thought-provoking moments. Less amusing but certainly instructive is the boys' quick trip to colonial Philadelphia. It provides an accessible, unusually human fictional portrayal of the approval of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, complete with a snappish Adams and a snarling Jefferson. In an appended section, Gutman separates some of the historical facts in the book from its fictional framework. --Carolyn Phelan |
References:
www.mackin.com
Bibliography:
Gutman, G. (2002). Qwerty Stevens back in time: The edison mystery. New York: New York. Simon & Schuster.
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