Once upon a time, Past became Present...A Young Adult Novel inspired by the story of Peter Pan Imagine a captured African boy who escapes, along with other native boys, from a slave ship headed to the New World. They try to row their way back to Africa, but land instead on a mysterious and magical island somewhere in the Caribbean where nothing is as it should be…including the natural process of growing up. Inspired by Peter Pan, this African-American take on a classic story is one with a significant difference…one, perhaps, in which today’s “lost youth” can find themselves.