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A Tale of Time City

Diana Wynne Jones · 336 pages

In 1939 an eleven-year-old London girl is kidnapped to Time City, a place existing outside the stream of time and manipulating the history of humanity, where she finds the inhabitants facing their worst hour of crisis.

Time TravelMiddle GradeLondonFantasy
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Stage Fright on a Summer Night

Mary Pope Osborne · 70 pages

Jack and Annie travel in their magic tree house to Elizabethan London, where they become actors in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and try to rescue a tame bear.

Time TravelLondonMiddle GradeFantasy
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A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Madeleine L'Engle · 256 pages

The Murry and OKeefe families enlist the help of the unicorn, Gaudior, to save the world from imminent nuclear war. In this companion volume to A Wrinkle In Time (Newbery Award winner) and A Wind In The Door, fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the mad dictator Madog Bra

Time TravelMiddle GradeFantasyQuest Narrative
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Molly Moon's Hypnotic Time Travel Adventure

Georgia Byng · 392 pages

Molly Moon, reunited with her parents, is hypnotized by a mysterious turbaned gardener and eventually transported to India, where she meets not only a maharajah with a speech defect but also former versions of herself.

Time TravelMiddle GradeFantasyOrphans
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A Wrinkle in Time Movie Tie-In Edition

Perfection Learning Corporation

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Divide and Conquer

Carrie Ryan · 194 pages

HISTORY UNDER ATTACK Hundreds of ships carrying thousands of Viking warriors are attacking medieval Paris. The Parisians are fighting back, but they can only last so long. And that's bad news – especially since Dak had been captured and forced to work with the invading army while Sera and Riq defend Paris from within. No matter which side wins, the kids will lose . . . unless Dak can find an ally

Time TravelMiddle GradeFantasyQuest Narrative
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Tom's Midnight Garden

Philippa Pearce · 229 pages

Daytime life for Tom is dull, but each night he participates in the lives of the former inhabitants of the old house in which he is spending an enforced vacation.

Time TravelMiddle GradeFantasyOrphans
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A Wrinkle in Time

James Sie, Madeleine L'Engle

Fantasy. Megs og Charles' far, som er videnskabsmand, bliver holdt i fangenskab på en fremmed planet. Hjulpet af tre mystiske damer og vennen Calvin, tager børnene af sted for at redde ham

Time TravelMiddle GradeFantasyQuest Narrative
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Moondial

Helen Cresswell · 224 pages

Time TravelMiddle GradeFantasyFemale Lead
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Tempting Fate

April White · 400 pages

Time TravelLondonFantasyFemale Lead
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Beswitched

Kate Saunders · 276 pages

On her way, reluctantly, to a boarding school in present-day England, Flora suddenly finds herself in 1935, the new girl at St. Winifred's, having been summoned via a magic spell by her new dormitory mates.

Time TravelMiddle GradeFantasyFemale Lead
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Hollow City

Ransom Riggs · 399 pages

In 1940, Jacob and his new friends escape from Miss Peregrine's island and travel to London where they encounter new allies, a menagerie of peculiar animals, and other unexpected surprises.

LondonTime TravelFantasyOrphans
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Sapphire Blue

Kerstin Gier

Sixteen-year-old Gwen, the newest and final member of the secret time-traveling Circle of Twelve, searches through history for the other time-travelers, aided by friend Lesley, James the ghost, Xemerius the gargoyle demon, and Gideon, the Diamond, whose fate seems bound with hers.

Time TravelLondonFantasyFemale Lead
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Flying High

Annie Dalton · 133 pages

Mel is not happy when Michael volunteers her and her mates for a medieval field trip. But when they get there, they stumble upon a time scam which could have serious repercussions for the Agency.

Time TravelMiddle GradeFantasyFemale Lead
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The Ancient One

T.A. Barron · 339 pages

While helping her Great Aunt Melanie try to protect an Oregon redwood forest from loggers, thirteen-year-old Kate goes back five centuries through a time tunnel and faces the evil creature Gashra, who is bent on destroying the same forest.

Time TravelMiddle GradeFantasyFemale Lead
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Time at the Top

Edward Ormondroyd · 168 pages

Susan Shaw, a spunky but lonely girl, finds herself transported back in time to 1881, courtesy of her apartment building's elevator.

Time TravelMiddle GradeFantasyFemale Lead
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Once Upon a Curse

E.D. Baker · 250 pages

Many years ago a slighted fairy placed a curse on a beautiful young princess--a curse that caused her and all her female descendants to turn into mean, ugly witches if they ever touched a flower after turning sixteen. Now, Princess Emma, who is about to turn sixteen herself, is determined to break the spell once and for all. Emma travels back in time to the day the curse was placed on her ancestor

Time TravelMiddle GradeFantasyFemale Lead
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Once a Villain

Vanessa Len · 416 pages

Time TravelLondonFantasyFemale Lead
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The Skin Map

Stephen R. Lawhead · 377 pages

Time TravelLondonFantasyQuest Narrative
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The Forever Man

Eoin Colfer · 339 pages

Riley, an orphan boy living in Victorian London, who has achieved his dream of becoming a renowned magician, and Chevie, the seventeen-year-old FBI agent who traveled from the future and helped him defeat his murderous master, Albert Garrick, face the return of Garrick, an assassin-for-hire, and must destroy him once and for all.

Time TravelLondonOrphansFemale Lead
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The BFG

Roald Dahl · 208 pages

This book is a great book for all ages. It is a fantasy/adventure book.The BFG stands for 'Big Friendly Giant'. He isn't like other giants, instead of going out to different countries to eat children he catches dreams. When he find's a little orphan girl watching him, he kidnaps her because he doesn't want anyone to find out that he was there, but when they arrive at giant's land they become frien

LondonMiddle GradeFantasyFemale Lead
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Charlotte Sometimes

Penelope Farmer · 189 pages

Time TravelMiddle GradeFantasyFemale Lead
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How to Catch a Bogle

Catherine Jinks · 335 pages

In 1870s London, a young orphan girl becomes the apprentice to a man who traps monsters for a living.

Middle GradeLondonFantasyFemale Lead
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Once Every Never

Lesley Livingston · 387 pages

Clarinet Reid is a typical teenager on the surface, except she has a centuries-old Druid blood curse running through her veins. She is locked in a deadly race to find a stolen artifact, avert an explosive catastrophe, save a Celtic warrior princess, and right a wrong that happened centuries before.

Time TravelLondonFantasyFemale Lead

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