Raising the Roof

<p>Fifteen-year-old Talulah (Tullie) has a passion for the natural world and sensitivity to how history mistreated her Choctaw people. Only now suddenly history gets personal. One day-in the middle of a swim lesson-a message appears literally out of nowhere inviting her to the twenty-fourth century!</p><p>Future folk have been recruiting teens from across time to travel and explore where adults can't. Along with a computer whiz-kid a free diver from nineteenth century Ceylon a cabin boy from 1906 arctic explorations plus some future-time youths Tullie is tasked with leading her team to an ice-roofed ocean world many light-years away! Oh and-especially for this mission to an ocean planet-the crew includes a Hawaiian octopus.</p><p>Braving radiation storms ice tunnels and lightless watery depths-plus a helpful but unreliable robot-Tullie and her comrades face a ticking countdown. They must find a way to protect this amazing world's ecosystem before it's too late!</p>