Gus can’t imagine anything worse than moving with his mom and sister to another city to live with his grandfather, until things go even more haywire. Besides becoming a target for bullies, finding a small box of unusual objects in his grandfather’s attic while doing a family history school assignment accidentally catapults him back in time. Now he has even bigger problems figuring out how he can return from the past, and if he does, will things ever get better in the present?