On the first day of eighth grade, Candace Wells opens her locker and is astonished when an unusual bird flies out. Soon after, a notebook mysteriously appears on the top shelf, labelled Tracey Auburn, 1988. Stranger still, as Candace reads the…
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Running Out of Time
Zoom to the past or leap into the future with these thrilling middle-grade time travel adventures!
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- Caleb Fisher is the right-hand to his time-surfer, scientist father, John. Together on their ship, they travel at super speed into the past and rescue treasures that have otherwise been lost—priceless works of art from the torpedoed RMS Lusitania, a…
- Twelve-year-old Maisie is so thrilled to finally have her own phone that she doesn’t mind that it’s a hand-me-down from a great-aunt she barely knows. Yet messages from a mysterious texter and vivid images of the past soon lead Maisie to wonder if…
- Ethan Koslov wants to be an ordinary kid, but his future adult self has shown up, demanding that he save the world by preventing his fourth-grade class from making their substitute teacher so miserable that her future self becomes an evil dictator…
- Bertie Wells creates a black hole in 1878 and is invited to attend a school in 2022, joining Zoe Fuentes, a math whiz from the future, and Amelia da Vinci from 550 years in the past, to solve a mystery.
- Waking up the morning after her birthday to discover six months have passed, Elise is unable to recall the last half year and must find a way to recover her past and escape this nightmare.
- Six New Jersey 12-year-olds separated by decades race to ensure the “good guys” win World War II. It all starts with a ham radio that Alice, Lawrence, and Artie fool around with in 1944 and Henry, Frances, and Lukas find in 2023. It’s late April,…
- At the military base in Mercury, Nevada -- near Area 51 -- Army brat frenemies Ike and Eesha become reluctant allies as they investigate a puzzling and highly dangerous mystery involving aliens, time travel, and government secrets.
- Ridge is a teenage genius and the world’s first time traveller—only, he wasn’t supposed to use the device, and now he’s stuck in 1999. Michael Rosario is a 12-year-old boy who is also stuck, in a way: his family struggles financially, something he…
- A twin sister and brother escape their miserable orphanage by travelling back in time to the American Revolution, where they race to uncover the many secrets of their past and fight to protect the future.
- After her dad dies of COVID, 12-year-old Boomi is given his old boombox and magically transported to Thumpton-on-Soar, England, 1986, where she meets her dad at age 12 and must figure out what she’s supposed to do -- save him or change her life.
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