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Plot Summary of Lightning Odyssey
"    During a struggle, a lightning bolt transports Charles DeWitt, a white settler boy, and Little Jake, a Native American boy, from 1838 to 2000. They must overcome their differences and cultural mistrust.
Charles is recognized from an old photo as a bike repairman's forefather who plans to use his experimental time transformer on a bicycle-built-for-two to return them. He must return them; but what will happen when the bike is damaged?"

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Review Analysis of Lightning Odyssey
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Plot

Composition of Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 20%
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 10%




Tone of book - very upbeat
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - science fiction story
Time Travel: - largely forwards/future
Inner Struggle Yes
Plotlet: - search for identity/new understanding
Is this an adult or child's book? - Kid's book (ages 7-14)
Time Travel story? Yes

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - farmer
Age: - a kid
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - natural phenomena
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - throughout most of the book.

Setting
Earth setting: - 19th century - current (early 21st century)
Takes place on Earth? Yes

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
scientific jargon? (SF only) - none/very little science jargon needed
Is this an e-book? Yes
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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