Johnny and the Bomb (Johnny Maxwell Trilogy, 3.)

Johnny and the Bomb (Johnny Maxwell Trilogy, 3.)

By Terry Pratchett

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Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell has a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. This has never been more true than when he finds himself in his hometown on May 21, 1941, over forty years before his birth!

An accidental time traveler, Johnny knows his history. He knows England is at war, and he knows that on this day German bombs will fall on the town. It happened. It's history. And as Johnny and his friends quickly discover, tampering with history can have unpredictable—and drastic—effects on the future.

But letting history take its course means letting people die. What if Johnny warns someone and changes history? What will happen to the future? If Johnny uses his knowledge to save innocent lives by being in the right place at the right time, is he doing the right thing?

Mixing nail-biting suspense with outrageous humor, Terry Pratchett explores a classic time-travel paradox in Johnny Maxwell's third adventure.

Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN-13: 9780060541934
ISBN-10: 0060541938
Published on 4/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 256

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BOMBS. They fell on Blackwell, Johnny's town, in 1941. But why don't more people care about them??? Huh? That's what JOHNNY thinks. And one day, he and his friends find Mrs. Tachyon lying on the street! She got attacked by a ghostly banana! Mrs. Tachyon is known for pushing a cart full of mysterious black bags. Johnny takes the black bags to his garage, where he and his friend Kirsty find out that the bags are full of TIME. Soon, Yo-less, Bigmac, Johnny, Wobbler, and Kirsty have traveled to 1941. It's the day before the BOMBS! But when they try to travel back to the present, something goes WRONG. Wobbler can't come back, and it turns out that it's because they have caused Wobbler's grandpa to die in the BOMB ATTACK. They will have to help Wobbler! And Johnny sees the opportunity to save those other pleeeple as well. But can they do it? The book was very strange and hard to understand, especially the "TROUSER LEGS OF TIME", but I liked how it was funny. Overall it was VARY GUUD.