Megan's last day of school before her Christmas vacation wasn't exactly the most pleasant she's had in a while. It appears someone told someone else at school a lie that Megan had said something derogatory about another girl who came looking to get even. As if that wasn't bad enough, her history teacher caught her daydreaming. Thinking to humiliate her, he asked her to get up in front of the class and explain details concerning facts about the pyramids of Giza. She got up and literally took over the classroom. You would have thought the teacher would have been pleased but there were three major problems. It seems he didn't like the fact that she was a better teacher on the subject than he was. He didn't like the fact the entire class was paying close attention as she spoke. And he didn't like the fact that about 95% of her information didn't come from her school text book! Megan is able to travel through time and space and, well, her perspective of history is quite a bit different than what she finds in her text books.
Megan returns home to find Payah watching some very depressing news about a war against terrorists. That wasn't exactly what she needed to cheer her up at that moment. She wonders if life has gotten so bad there's no hope for humanity? If someone could do something to change things for the better then what would they do? What could they do?
Megan's Prayer
"Dear God, please bless America. I know she's made plenty of mistakes but when other nations of the world were in trouble and being over-run by terrorists and evil dictators America was there to turn the tide of battle in favor of those who love freedom. If not for her where would the world be today? And God please bless the leaders of the nations and give them wisdom, compassion, and insight so they will do the correct things by their people and toward other nations as well. And God bless the people of the world that they may learn to love each other despite their differences and learn to respect each other as precious living beings sharing this world with them. And God if it's not too much trouble if you have any time left maybe you could show me something that I could do to make the world a better place to live. Thank you, God. I'll be expecting your answer soon."
No sooner had Megan said this prayer than God answered her and set her on a brand new chain of adventures and challenges. Find out what happens in this wonderful family adventure.
This book has a BIG surprise in it for the readers. It is another very big clue as to the origin and purpose of the crown and the medallion and a brand new "TOY" for Megan and her friends to play with.
Excerpt
Excerpt from A Christmas Story (Listen to the author read this excerpt in MP3 format.)
May Uses the Crown Device
While this discussion was in full swing a very excited May appeared in Megan's bedroom in a flash of blue light. There she was with her eyes as large as saucers, her hair standing straight up and laying over the edge of the crown device. In her hand was a large book. "Um, Um!" May panted to catch her breath, "I got the ledger back!"
"What in the world did you do?" Megan spoke half in anger trying to hold her voice down so the girls in the living room and her mother wouldn't hear.
"Um, well, I found the janitor. He's some kind of gangster too, I think! He had moved to another motel and while he was taking a shower I zapped in and grabbed the ledger. Well, then he heard me I guess and came running naked out of the bathroom with a gun in his hand. I barely got away!" May panted as she fell into the chair near the closet.
Megan walked over and took the crown from May's head with one hand and the ledger in the other. Handing the ledger to Brianna, she put the crown back into the lower left hand desk drawer where she sometimes kept it. "Now this guy saw you, didn't he?"
"Um, well," May grimaced indicating she had been seen.
"But I got the ledger and got away!" She nodded her head as a sheepish smile appeared.
Megan let go a rather large sigh as she plopped down on the bed and reached out for the ledger Brianna was now holding. "I told you specifically not to transport anywhere except back here and you, you, well, you did it anyway!" Megan opened the ledger and began flipping through it.
"He came running out of the bathroom naked with a gun in his hand?" Brianna's eyebrows raised upon her forehead as a hand moved to cover her mouth.
"Yeah, he had a gun. I thought he was going to shoot me!" May answered.
"He was naked! Ummm!" Brianna smiled and shook her head.
"And you're sorry you didn't get that on video, I bet," Megan shook her head as she looked over the strange numbers in the ledger. "You know, this makes no sense to me. It might as well be in some other language!" Megan turned a few more pages. "Lots of really big numbers. Lots of them!" she added.
Brianna was nodding her head about Megan's first question and giggling. May was still trying to catch her breath. It was a close call and it was evident she had made a very narrow escape.
There was something else that Megan had sensed but had yet to put a finger on. Maybe it was May's hair. That was it, why was her hair standing up and over the crown like that?
Megan looked up at May, "What really happened?"
