And Then I Read: THE BLACK CANARY

© Jane Louise Curry.

This 2005 novel by Curry is one of many she has written involving time travel in one way or another. Here an American boy with highly talented musician parents (and grandparents) has been dragged along to London, where his mother will be performing and his dad will be taking him touring around the city for the summer. Twelve-year-old James is biracial, and is having a hard time finding his place in the world and his own family. For one thing, he doesn't want to be a...