Saving Lucas Biggs, by Marisa de los Santos and David Teague, is a novel that explores themes of love, family, friendship, history, and the exploitation of mine workers with an exciting and generous dose of time travel. The novel begins with thirteen-year-old Margaret’s father being convicted and served a death sentence for a crime he didn’t commit. Margaret, with the help of her best friend, Charlie, and his grandfather, Josh, set out to free Margaret’s father and to get his conviction overturned. This, however, is no easy task.
With no real, legal way to set her father free, Margaret must turn to her “family quirk” to help her dad. This quirk, it turns out, is time travel. Margaret plans to travel back in time in order to stop the series of events that lead to her father’s imprisonment. But she quickly learns that “history resists,” and that turning back time and changing the course of history is harder than she anticipates.
Though Margaret experiences many challenges and much disappointment in the quest to free her father, she never gives up hope. A deep understanding that love will triumph in the end, and an unwavering belief in the power of courage and goodness, lead Margaret to persevere in her efforts to save her dad. And in the act of liberating her dad, she can simultaneously save the Judge on her father’s case from the hurt and darkness in which he dwells.
Ultimately, the novel is a celebration of the power of friendship and of love, and of never giving up--not on people nor on challenges. I highly recommend this book to anyone with a sense of adventure and of justice, and to anyone who enjoys a story of redemption and of love and bravery. I give Saving Lucas Biggs a 4.5-star rating.
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