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PaperQuake: A Puzzle
Kathryn Reiss
Hardcover (Harcourt Children's Books, May 1, 1998)While helping her sisters clean up a building that their parents are renovating, an aftershock of a recent earthquake dislodges a decades-old letter written to Baby V--and Violet is certain that somehow it has been written to her. As more and more mysterious writings from the past tumble into Violet’s hands, she and her sisters begin to delve into historical documents and newspaper articles from the 1900s--including the accounts of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake--in an attempt to unravel the mystery. But as the present earthquakes increase in frequency, the girls realize that their time is running out. . . .
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How I Survived the Irish Famine: The Journal of Mary O'Flynn
Laura Wilson
Library Binding (HarperCollins, Jan. 1, 2001)Brings readers face-to-face with the daily life of twelve-year-old Mary O'Flynn and her family, from their first encounter with the great Irish famine to their eventual journey by ship to America. Simultaneous.
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Ice Maidens Of The Andes
Janet Buell
Hardcover (21st Century, Dec. 9, 1997)Discusses the discovery of the 500-year-old frozen body of a young girl in the Andes and how this discovery has increased our knowledge of ancient civilization
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Paint by Magic
Kathryn Reiss
Library Binding (Demco Media, Aug. 1, 2003)After his mom suddenly starts acting old-fashioned, eleven-year-old Conner is transported back to 1926, where he must discover and break the mysterious hold an obsessed artist has on his mom that is trapping her between times.
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Jo Kelly Time Traveller
Sarah Garrett
Paperback (Seven Arches Publishing, Feb. 9, 2011)The daughter of two high flying Oxford academics, Jo, who loves drumming to a rock beat, doesn't exactly fit in, but she is chosen to be a time traveller. Meeting writers such as C.S. Lewis and Tolkien gives her the edge on those who have only read the books.
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Dreadful Sorry
Kathryn Reiss
Library Binding (Turtleback Books, May 1, 2004)FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Seventeen-year-old Molly spends the summer at her father's Victorian house, hoping to find an escape, but she is haunted by mysterious dreams and her frightening similarity to Clementine, a girl who lived there 80 years earlier.
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Alex McLean Time Traveller
Morag Ramsey
Paperback (Seven Arches Publishing, Nov. 30, 2010)Alex is hooked on climbing. Is it his dream of scaling the famous Edinburgh castle rock that gets him chosen by a strange future civilisation to go back in time to 1314? This is when a band of desperate Scots scaled the rock and massacred the sleeping Sassenach soldiers: Alex is with them!
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PaperQuake: A Puzzle
Kathryn Reiss
Paperback (Sandpiper, March 1, 2002)Violet's paralyzing fear of the San Francisco earthquakes changes when her family renovates an old building. An aftershock dislodges a letter addressed in 1906 to Baby V--and Violet is certain the disturbing letter is intended for her.
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Toju & Tosan Meet Ajayi Crowther: Time Travel Series
Philip Begho
Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, June 20, 2011)Toju and Tosan, two seven-year-old friends, are able to travel through time, using the time caps Toju’s scientist father invented. In this episode, they decide to visit Ajayi Crowther, the slave boy destined for greatness – and what an adventure they have!
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Pale Phoenix
Kathryn Reiss
Paperback (Demco Media, April 30, 2004)When her parents take in a strange orphan girl with a mysterious past, fifteen-year-old Miranda decides to find out why she seems to have come from nowhere and how she seems to be able to disappear at will.
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Ice maiden of the Andes
Janet Buell
Unknown Binding (Braille International, )None