When The Lights Go Out was written for the 10th anniversary of 9/11 so our
kids will never forget its importance. Many middle grade readers are too young
to remember anything about 9/11 except for what they see on TV. This exciting,
heart-pounding action-adventure story can help.
When the Lights go Out
Peyton Aldrich has
just moved to a new army base with his parents and younger sister. He doesn’t
understand why his father has been sent to such a rundown place in the middle
of nowhere. After all, his father was a colonel, with top security clearance,
who completed the elite Ranger school. And his training had been in Army
Intelligence. Yet, here they were.
Peyton was never
allowed to ask his father anything about what he did in the army. Nor was he
allowed to ever get in the way. There were many secrets that his dad couldn’t even
tell his own family.
Peyton idolized
his father. One day, he hoped to grow up to be just like him. His father had
told him that the army may not be for everyone, but after what happened on
9/11, somebody had to help keep the country safe.
Peyton finds two
friends. Gill is the son of the base’s motor pool sergeant, and Dave’s father is
the base chaplain. Together they decide to train like Rangers, and search for
some kind of mission they could do. Little did they know that a mission was
about to put the boys right in the crosshairs of a dangerous terrorist plot,
when a secret weapon would be delivered to the base on its way across the
country.
There was no way Peyton
could tell his father what he knew. After all, it could cost him his job.
Peyton, Gill, and Dave have to take matters into their own hands, and they do.
Will the
terrorists find out who is trying to expose their evil plan? Will the boys be
able to stop them? And what will happen to Peyton’s father when the general
finds out what the boys did?
“When the Lights go Out.” A story for
kids, and their parents, so we never forget 9/11.
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