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Synopsis
Jonah and Katherine are accustomed to traveling through time, but when learn they next have to return Albert Einstein’s daughter to history, they think it’s a joke—they’ve only heard of his sons. But it turns out that Albert Einstein really did have a daughter, Lieserl, whose 1902 birth and subsequent disappearance was shrouded in mystery. Lieserl was presumed to have died of scarlet fever as an infant. But when Jonah and Katherine return to the early 1900s to fix history, one of Lieserl’s parents seems to understand entirely too much about time travel and what Jonah and Katherine are doing. It’s not Lieserl’s father, either—it’s her mother, Mileva. And Mileva has no intention of letting her daughter disappear.
Is Caught appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 10 and up.
This middle grade time-travel adventure deals with historical mysteries and features Albert Einstein's lost daughter. Contains mild peril typical of the genre and explores themes of family separation, but remains appropriate for upper elementary readers.
What to know going in
This book has mild violence, no sexual content, and clean language. Content notes include death of child and abandonment.
Who'll love this
Time-traveling kids face off against Einstein's determined mother in a race to fix history and solve one of science's greatest mysteries.