Grave / James Heneghan 245 p.

Tough juvenile Tom Mullen survives many bad foster homes in Liverpool after his mother abandoned him when he was one. When construction workers unearth a mass grave, he feels its pull. When he falls in, he is transported to 1847 where he uses CPR to save the live of Irish lad Tully Monaghan. Tom is the spitting image of Tully. Tom makes several trips back to the Monaghan. Heneghan makes the reader understand the conditions at the time Irish potato famine as well as the life of a juvenile foster boy. This book made history come alive. It is based on a true incident where a mass grave was uncovered during excavation for a school's foundation. This story kept me re-reading portions much like Tom felt the pull to keep re-visiting the Monaghan family.