Now, the story centers on one of the students at Manchester Middle School named Cam and his relationship with his father. See, Cam's father -- in the book -- has been deployed to Afghanistan and Cam doesn't understand it. Doesn't understand why his dad would leave, doesn't understand why his dad would leave the family, doesn't understand what the big deal is.
He just struggles with it. It's a long separation. He loves his dad and it's all kind of confusing to him. So, as the story develops, Rush Revere, Liberty, and the crew -- the time-traveling crew from Manchester Middle School, the students -- travel to Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill; they witness the events that led to the Declaration of Independence.
They meet and have conversations with exceptional Americans like Dr. Joseph Warren, Paul Revere -- and, yes, George Washington himself. And through the time travels you will see that the student Cam matures before your very eyes and learns a great deal about the why and the how his dad is doing what he's doing. And it gives him some insight about the amazing sacrifice of our military heroes. See, to Cam, he knows his dad is in the military, but it's still his dad.
That's the thing that's most important to him, and he's struggling with thinking that his father, by deploying, is abandoning him. You might think that's strange. It isn't. It happens routinely in military families. So we decided to address it here in this book in our attempt to honor the people who do what they do.
