Raising the Roof

Fifteen-year-old Talulah (Tullie) has a passion for the natural world, and sensitivity to how history mistreated her Choctaw people. Only now, suddenly, "history" gets personal. One day-in the middle of a swim lesson-a message appears literally out of nowhere, inviting her to the twenty-fourth century!

Future folk have been recruiting teens from across time, to travel and explore where adults can't. Along with a computer whiz-kid, a free diver from nineteenth century Ceylon, a cabin boy from...