Kindle Edition Amazon Kathleen Andrews Davis Category:  Young Adult/Teen Publisher: Kathleen Andrews Davis ISBN-10:  0989438937 Type: Fiction Pages: 133 Copyright: 2014 ISBN-13: 9780989438933 Price: $9.95 (eBook) Smoke and Mirrors, the second book in the Emerson's Attic series, finds Emerson steeped in another time-travel mystery. This one even more fun than the first. Walking home from school 14-year-old Emerson McBride thought it was just another beautiful fall day, little did she know how wrong she was. There’s a secret in the attic of the old Victorian house where she lives and her best friend Sarah has gone up to the attic to look for a Halloween costume.  Will the same thing happen to Sarah that happened to Emerson the last time she was in the attic?  Will Emerson get home in time to save her friend? Excerpt Lights. Noise. Movement. Emerson shook her head and blinked. ‘Where am I? Where’s Sarah?’ Someone was yelling in her direction. “Lily, pay attention. Get on with it!” This from a man dressed in a black waistcoat and striped trousers with a long whip in his hand.

A captivating adventure story!, February 19, 2015 By Deanie Humphrys-Dunne "Deanie Humphrys-Dunne"
Author Kathleen Andrews Davis did a wonderful job creating an engaging children's story. In this book, "Smoke and Mirrors" (Emerson's Attic Book 2) Emerson and her best friend, Sarah travel back in time. They find themselves in the circus! This presents a myriad of problems because Emerson looks just like a young circus performer named Lily, who's an excellent equestrian. Horseback riding was not one of Emerson's skills,so right away we see the consequences. The story is full of adventure and mystery woven carefully into the plot. Young readers will be fascinated with it. I highly recommend this story. Well done Ms. Andrews Davis!
Review by children's author, Deanie Humphrys-Dunne


A chance to run away with the circus!, June 20, 2014 By M. Lapierre
In the first book in the Emerson's Attic series, The Blue Velvet, 14-year- old Emerson McBride time travels to an 1892 English country manor. I found the story to be so refreshing and have been anxious to see where Emerson would find herself next. In her latest adventure, Smoke and Mirrors, she gets a travel companion in the form of her best friend Sarah. Poor Sarah innocently goes up to Emerson's attic to look for a Halloween costume and puts on a frizzy orange wig and a red rubber ball on her nose. Before they know it the two girls are a part of the Cellini Brothers Greatest Family Show on Rails in 1905 in the midst of a great deal of funny business.

This book will make any child (or adult, for that matter) who has ever wanted to run away with the circus feel like they are under the big top!