What if your DNA could plummet you into the past? Join identical twins Frank and Theo Sanford and their little sister Rosie as they find themselves part of their science teacher's covert genetic experiment based upon the coded writings of Nostradamus. Her experiment leads Frank and Rosie to travel through time, taking them on the ride of their lives, in the quest for Thomas Jefferson's dream.
Rodgers-Ramos, a history and creative writing teacher to secondary students, loved reading the Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne to her son Max. As Max got older and wanted to read more historical fiction, he could not find anything interesting at his reading level. Given that challenge and using her creative writing skills, Rodgers-Ramos spun her love of history into writing an exciting story for Max which became Riding the Double Helix.
The book includes thought provoking questions to prompt discussions as well as to entice the reader to do further inquiry into the historical figures and incidents mentioned in the book.
About the Author: After teaching history and creative writing to secondary students for 27 years, and having work published in The Greyrock Review, The Dry Creek Review and others, Emily Rodgers-Ramos was inspired to write Riding the Double Helix book for her son Max.
Max loved reading the Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne, but as Max got older and wanted to read more historical fiction, he could not find anything interesting at his reading level. Given that challenge and using her creative writing skills, Rodgers-Ramos spun her love of history into writing an exciting story for Max.
She cites writer Muriel Rukeyser for the inspiration element-that the Universe is made up of myriads of stories, and not atoms; that in a single historical event, there can be thousands of stories. Richer for having heard some of these stories, she has come to realize that stories make differences that magically fade away.
Rodgers-Ramos once met a woman who told her the story of her grandfather, a chef, who invented ice sculptures and Thousand Island dressing. Or the story told by Jesse, a former student, who had his head run over by a Toyota Tacoma . . . with no damage! And she delights in regaling the fact that in Finland, the best way to remove your tongue from a frozen pole is to get your brother to pee on it.
When asked about the next Riding the Double Helix adventure book, all Rodgers-Ramos would say is that the stories will continue until her readers' cosmic piggy bank is full.
She happily lives in Colorado presently with her husband. Son Max is now off to college.