SAVING LUCAS BIGGS

SAVVY meets Margaret Peterson Haddix in this charming time-travel adventure as one girl tries to change the past to save her father in the present.

Thirteen-year-old Margaret is shattered when her father is unfairly sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit. She is determined to help him, even though the cruel judge, Lucas Biggs, will not change his mind. But Margaret's family has a secret - they can travel through time. Even though Margaret's father has forbidden her from using this power, Margaret knows it is the only way to stop his death.

Margaret travels back in time and with the help of Josh (her best friend's grandfather) tries to prevent the chain of events that caused a young Lucas Biggs to transform into the corrupt, jaded man he is in 2014.

Co-written by husband and wife team Marisa de los Santos and David Teague and told in alternating chapters between Margaret and Josh, this heart-warming story shows that sometimes the forces of good need a little extra help to triumph over the forces of evil.

Marisa de los Santos is the bestselling author of Love Walked In, Belong to Me, and Falling Together. David Teague is a picture book author (Franklin's Big Dreams) and a professor at the University of Delaware.