Aleca enlists the help of her Aunt to explore the bridge that only Ford can see. She evades her best friend’s suspicions, plays a mild prank on the principal again (stopping time) and discovers that three of them together- Aleca, Ford and Aunt Zephyr- can harness or combine all their abilities to do something greater. They’re able to navigate the bridge and actually travel to the past- where they don’t do much besides look around. However when attempting to return to their own time, a glitch occurs on the bridge and they momentarily go to the future instead. Aleca quickly realizes something terrible will happen for everyone in that future trajectory, and in the last paragraph she determines she won’t let it come to pass. She’ll change something in her own time to prevent it. Obviously a setup for more books in the series, but there don’t seem to be any yet. It was fun but not quite so engaging as the last three, which had the glory of roller skates, and the intriguing differences in Ford’s character (this time he seemed more just like a nerdy precocious kid, not so much as if on the spectrum. But that’s just my impression.
Borrowed from the public library.
