Newshounds

Imagine yourself on the bridge of a sleek, new, 70 foot ocean-going yacht. Your companions include two eminent scientists, Professor Howard Terwilliger and his brother Tom, who is at the helm. As you leave the marina at Longboat Landings and motor out into Florida's Sarasota Bay, Tom engages the yacht's anti-gravity engines. Neptune I shines with the distinct silver shimmer of an anti-gravity field as it rises and begins the voyage to Key West. That is the experience of Tim Hale in this second book of the Adventures of Professor Terwilliger and Tim. Join him and his companions on the demonstration voyage in one of the first very large anti-gravity vehicles. Travel to Key West and Paradise Island in the Bahamas. Visit exotic places in the Caribbean, South America and Panama. Traverse the canal and go on to the Galapagos Islands in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Spend time at the ancient ruins of Tulum in the Yucatan of Mexico. Finally, go aboard the just finished Freedom Ship, the extraordinary floating city, nearly a mile long, 750 feet wide and 25 stories high, which will be the permanent berth for Neptune I. Share the adventure with Tim, his sister Marta and their parents, and the Terwilligers, as they endure being detained by the Cuban military, abduction by modern-day Caribbean pirates, and finally a visit from the shadowy group known as El Zabid. This continues the story of creativity and adventure, of a future that might be, for teens and other young readers of all ages.