By Ted Bell. ISBN-13:978-0-312-38068-7 (hardcover) ISBN-13:978-0-312-58143-5 (softcover). Copyright 2000, 2005, 2008. 434 pages.

In a wondrous tale of time travel, adventure, and riches, twelve-year-old Nick McIver sets out to become “the hero of his own life”. Nick and his younger sister, Kate, travel through time to rescue British soldiers from the mutinous Captain Billy Blood in 1805 and back to 1939 to aid their father who is engaged in a desperate war of espionage with German U-boats.   
Mount Vernon offers this title to our customers because it is the first in the series of author Ted Bell’s Nick McIver children’s adventure series. The second book in the series, “Time Pirate”, features George and Martha Washington, Mount Vernon, and the Battle of Yorktown in the Revolutionary War.
For ages 10 through adult.