This never-before-seen twist on time travel adventure explores the theme of accepting those who are different--and having the courage to join them The moment Ambrose Brody steps into a fortune-tellers tent he is whisked into a quest that spans millennia with his best friend an enigmatic carnival girl and an unusual family heirloom that drops them into the middle of the nineteenth century The year is a dangerous time for three non-white children and they must work together to dodge slave-catchers and save ancestors from certain death--all while figuring out how to get back to the future Fortunately they have a guide in the helpful hints embedded in an ancient Chinese text called the I-Ching which they interpret using Morse Code But how can a three-thousand-year-old book be sending messages into the future through a code developed in the s Find out in this mind-bending time-bending adventure.