Product Description

Northern Lights is a time travel adventure for young adult readers featuring LightStar, a quintet of astoundingly successful pop musicians. When a violent electrical storm interrupts their concert in Richmond, Virginia, these five engaging young men find themselves catapulted back to 1862 into the midst of the Civil War. Immediately captured by the Union Army, they are soon on their way to prison to be tried as spies. After hatching an escape plan, the boys must rely on each other and their own ingenuity as they struggle to stay alive, stay together, and get back home.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1338438 in Books
• Published on: 2003-12-01
• Released on: 2003-12-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 121 pages

Customer Reviews

Time travel to the Civil War
During the last song of their final stop on tour, the five members of the pop group, LightStar are caught on stage in an electrical storm and hurtled back in time to 1862 and the midst of the Civil War. Yankee soldiers think they are spies and capture them. Eric and Gabriel are sent on a march north to a Rebel prison. They manage to escape from their captors and run to a homestead where they find a young woman, Molly living alone with Old Henry. She offers them food and shelter from the soldiers but all is not what it seems. Meanwhile, Kyle, Michael, and Tony are headed to the Union outpost in Washington, DC, with Major Thomas and the rest of the unit. The guys try explaining that they're from the future but the Major doesn't buy it. Instead they make up a story about being spies for President Lincoln. When they eventually come face-to-face with the President their lies are revealed. To save their own lives they must convince Lincoln they are from the future. But will he believe them? In the midst of their efforts to reunite the band and find their way back home, the guys are drawn into the drama and violence of the Civil War. Because they know the outcome and desperately want to make it out of their nightmare alive, they are tempted to interfere with history. "Northern Lights keeps" readers guessing through an unexpected journey back to a dangerous time.