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Someone has to cut those big fields of wheat in Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma.  Summer's family is one of those who do that job.  Summer lives in Kansas and when her parents have to go to Japan to take care of relatives, she goes with her grandparents and brother, Jaz,  and her dog to help her grandmother, Obaachan, cook for the field hands although she ends up doing much more. This book explains how the fields are combined and a little about how the people live when doing that work.  It is a great book for a student of middle school age to read as they are looking at the vast fields of wheat.

If you are going to be traveling to London, or happen to live there, this young adult book might be just right for you.  The story takes place in both the London of 1898 and present day London.  Riley is an orphan who is apprentice to the illusionist, robber, and  murderer Albert Garrick in Victorian London. During a time when Garrick is forcing Riley to preform his first murder, Riley s saved by being transported via a wormhole to modern-day London.  It turns out the murder victim was a scientist from the future and part of the FBI's Witness Anonymous Relocation Program (WARP), a way to protect witnesses of violent crimes in the past until they can testify in the present in court.  Riley meets Cheron Savano, a 17-year-old Native American FBI agent who helps him escape Garrick by going back to the past, again through a wormhole.  This book is one of a series and the ending set up the story for the next book.