BooksChatter: ☀☄ The Kid: Escape from the Past [2]

Thank you for joining us on the Virtual Book Tour for The Kid, a YA Historical Science Fiction novel by Annette Oppenlander (26 February 2016, Lodestone Books, 308 pages).

This is the second book in the Escape from the Past trilogy.

Don't miss our interview with author Annette Oppenlander.

PREVIEW: Check out the book's synopsis and excerpt below, as well as info and trailer for the first book in the series.

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Synopsis

Time-traveling gamer, Max, embarks on a harrowing journey through the Wild West of 1881!

After a huge fight with his parents, Max tries to return to his love and his best friend, Bero, in medieval Germany. Instead he lands in 1881 New Mexico.

Struggling to get his bearings and coming to terms with Dr. Stuler’s evil computer game misleading him, he runs into Billy the Kid. To his amazement Billy isn’t at all the ruthless killer history made him out to be.

Trouble brews when a dying Warm Springs Apache gives Max a huge gold nugget to help his sister, Ela, escape from Fort Sumner. Shopping for supplies Max attracts the attention of ruthless bandits. Before Max can ask the Kid’s help, he and Ela are forced to embark on a journey to find his imaginary goldmine.

Teaser: Excerpt

     From my higher vantage point I noticed a dust cloud growing rapidly larger. And from it grew an apparition of terror as I’d never seen.
     Two dozen Indians galloped toward us, fanned out like the tip of an arrow. They rode bareback, their faces painted black, red and white, their long oiled hair flowing behind them. They wore leather pants with loin clothes and nothing but beads and feathers around their necks.
     “Indians,” I mumbled. I hadn’t even realized I said something except that Wade whipped around and followed my gaze.
     “Injuns, Boss,” he shouted. “Looks like Comanches.” He ripped his gun from the saddle holster, the other men following suit.
     The next moments were a blur. I felt myself slide off the donkey and race to the wagons for cover. The settlers were scrambling underneath, getting in position. The girl raced to grab the two little kids and shove them under the wagon.
     I watched in fascination. As if time had slowed to a crawl, the Indians, shrouded in a dust cloud, drew near. Their faces looked hideous with the war paint, but their cries were what made me tremble with terror. It sounded like something out of this world, eerie whoops that curdled my blood.
     I had no weapons. Even if I’d had any, my body was stiff with panic.

The Kid
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Out on 26 Feb 2016!

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The Series: Escape from the Past

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The Duke's Wrath [1]

When fifteen-year-old nerd and gamer Max Anderson thinks he's sneaking a preview of an unpublished video game, he doesn't realize that

He's been chosen as a beta, an experimental test player.
He’s playing the ultimate history game, transporting him into the actual past: anywhere and anytime.
Survival is optional: to return home he must decipher the game's rules and complete its missions—if he lives long enough. To fail means to stay in the past—forever.

Now Max is trapped in medieval Germany, unprepared and clueless. It is 1471 and he quickly learns that being an outcast may cost him his head. Especially after rescuing a beautiful peasant girl from a deadly infection and thus provoking sinister wannabe Duke Ott.

Overnight he is dragged into a hornets' nest of feuding lords who will stop at nothing to bring down the conjuring stranger in their midst.

[Published 31 July 2015, 300 pages]

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About the Author

Annette Oppenlander writes historical fiction for young adults. When she isn’t in front of her computer, she loves indulging her dog, Mocha, and traveling around the U.S. and Europe to discover amazing histories.

“Nearly every place holds some kind of secret, something that makes history come alive. When we scrutinize people and places closely, history is no longer a number, it turns into a story.”

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