title: The Tale of Time Warp Tuesday: The second of The Zephram Tales
author:  Leslie A. Susskind 
description: Leslie A. Susskind lives with her husband, daughters and two cats outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she writes children's books while working in marketing and trying to keep up with everyone's activities. She is a BIG bookworm and loves to read just about anything she can get her hands on. She also loves to watch home improvement TV shows (and tries to convince her husband to do the projects), sing in choirs, and watch movies (especially anything Jane Austin). Sometimes she can even be found cooking without a microwave. "The Tale of Time Warp Tuesday" is the second book in the Zephram series after "The Month of Zephram Mondays." Watch for the third Zephram Tale, "Wednesday when the Rock Field Rang," comingin 2014. Meanwhile, her new middle grade series, "The Abercrombie Family Business, Totally True, Secret Story#1<i>,"</i>will be published inDecember, 2013.
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  > _For Andres, always. Though the path was sometimes strewn with thorns, you
  > were always there to hold my hand, or catch me when I stumbled._
  
   _Contents_
  
    
  
  Title Page
  
  Dedication
  
    
  
  One: Down Below
  
  Deuce
  
  Trial
  
  Wordkeeper
  
  Ambush
  
  Journey
  
  Hidden
  
  Nassau
  
  Darkness
  
  Homecoming
  
  Treasure
  
  Recompense
  
  Sacrifice
  
    
  
  Two: Topside
  
  Unknown
  
  Sunshine
  
  Resistance
  
  Clash
  
  Rush
  
  Pearl
  
  Enlightenment
  
  Library
  
  Respite
  
  Trek
  
  Snow
  
  Nightmare
  
  Despair
  
  Salvation
  
    
  
  Author’s Note
  
  Acknowledgments
  
  Copyright
  
    
  
  > one
  
    
  
  > down below
  
    
  
  > In the windowless tomb of a blind mother, in the dead of night, under the
  > feeble rays of a lamp in an alabaster globe, a girl came into the darkness
  > with a wail.
  
  > —George MacDonald, _The Day Boy and the Night Girl_
  
   _Deuce_
  
    
  
  I was born during the second holocaust. People had told us legends of a time
  when human beings lived longer. I thought they were just stories. Nobody even
  lived to see forty in my wor