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Dolphins at Daybreak

Mary Pope Osborne · 67 pages

Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie deep into the sea, where they meet up with dolphins, sharks, and octopi as they search for the answer to an ancient riddle.

Time TravelOcean and ShipsMiddle GradeAdventure
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Nick of Time

Ted Bell · 419 pages

This fiery novel is about a boy who possesses a time machine; and with this treasure his heart is set on saving England from the grim fate of the past, and saving his kidnapped sister.

Ocean and ShipsTime TravelMiddle GradeAdventure
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Torn

Margaret Peterson Haddix · 352 pages

Time travelers Jonah and Katherine arrive in 1611 to rescue missing child John Hudson, son of the explorer Henry Hudson, but just as the mutiny on the Discovery is supposed to start, Jonah and Katherine’s knowledge of history is tested once again, and they fear that more is at stake than just one boy’s life. Author’s notes includes facts about Henry Hudson’s explorations.

Ocean and ShipsTime TravelMiddle GradeAdventure
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The Arctic Incident

Eoin Colfer · 304 pages

Auf geheimen Wegen gelangt Meisterverbrecher Artemis Fowl in das eisige Murmansk, wo er seinen Vater vermutet, der sich in der Gewalt einer skrupellosen Erpresserbande befinden soll. Doch Artemis hat ungewöhnliche Verbündete auf seiner Seite und natürlich auch schon einen Plan im Kopf. Einen gefährlichen Plan.

Middle GradeTime TravelOcean and ShipsAdventure
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A Mutiny in Time

James Dashner · 196 pages

Time has gone wrong, and best friends Dak Smyth and Sera Froste, together with the young Hystorian Riq, must use the infinity ring to travel back to one of the Great Breaks--a mutiny on the Santa María--to correct history and defeat the SQ.

Ocean and ShipsTime TravelMiddle GradeAdventure
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Many Waters

Madeleine L'Engle · 310 pages

Sandy and Dennys have always been the normal, run-of-the-mill ones in the extraodinary Murry family. They garden, make an occasional A in school, and play baseball. Nothing especially interesting has happened to the twins until they accidentally interrupt their father's experiment. Then the two boys are thrown across time and space. They find themselves alone in the desert, where, if they belie

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

Perfection Learning Corporation

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Pirate Freedom

Gene Wolfe · 320 pages

A young priest fresh out of seminary, Father Christopher finds himself inexplicably swept back in time to the Golden Age of Piracy, where he finds himself caught up in the life of a buccaneer and trolling the waters of the Caribbean in search of Spanish gold.

Ocean and ShipsTime TravelAdventureFantasy
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The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni · 329 pages

As twelve-year-old Anand continues his studies to become a full-fledged member of The Brotherhood of the Conch, he journeys back to Moghul times, where he encounters powerful sorcerors, spoiled princes, noble warriors, and evil jinns.

Time TravelMiddle GradeAdventureFantasy
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Half Magic

Edward Eager · 217 pages

It all begins with a strange coin on a sun-warmed sidewalk. Jane finds the coin, and because she and her siblings are having the worst, most dreadfully boring summer ever, she idly wishes something exciting would happen. And something *does*: Her wish is granted. Or not quite. Only half her wish comes true. It turns out the coin grants wishes—but only by half, so that you must wish for

Time TravelMiddle GradeAdventureFantasy
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Legacy of Secrets

Ridley Pearson · 416 pages

Disneyland, Opening Day, 1955. When five present-day teenagers known as the Kingdom Keepers find themselves thrown into a past that would make anyone envious, things don't exactly work out the way they'd hoped. Finn, Charlene, Maybeck, Willa, and Philby open a door into a place and a time when the legend of the Disney parks is just starting. They are there, in 1955, to retrieve Walt Disney's infa

Time TravelMiddle GradeAdventureFantasy
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Passenger

Alexandra Bracken · 504 pages

"Two worlds collide in this sweeping, romantic novel about a love that crosses centuries by bestselling author of the Darkest Minds series, Alexandra Bracken"-- "In one devastating night, violin prodigy Etta Spencer loses everything she knows and loves... Nicholas Carter is content with his life at sea, free from the Ironwoods-a powerful family in the Colonies-and the servitude he's known at thei

Ocean and ShipsTime TravelAdventureFantasy
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Emily Windsnap and the Monster from the Deep

Liz Kessler · 219 pages

Picture an island set in a glittering blue sea, sparkling with white sand and palm trees, a secret place where humans and merfolk live together. To Emily Windsnap — half mermaid, half human — her new home is perfect. That is, until Emily ruins everything by waking a legendary sea monster known as the kraken from its hundred-year sleep. . . . An enchanting tale with a fabulous monster, engaging cha

Ocean and ShipsMiddle GradeAdventureFantasy
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Christmas in Camelot Graphic Novel

Mary Pope Osborne; adapted by Jenny Laird; illustrated by Kelly Matthews and Nichole Matthews

Time TravelMiddle GradeAdventureFantasy
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The Sixty-Eight Rooms

Marianne Malone · 274 pages

Ruthie thinks nothing exciting will ever happen to her until her sixth-grade class visits the Art Institute of Chicago, where she and her best friend Jack discover a magic key that shrinks them to the size of gerbils and allows them to explore the Thorne Rooms--the collection of sixty-eight miniature rooms from various time periods and places--and discover their secrets.

Time TravelMiddle GradeAdventureFantasy
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Voyager

Diana Gabaldon · 1,059 pages

From the author of the breathtaking bestsellers Outlander and Dragonfly in Amber, the extraordinary saga continues.Their passionate encounter happened long ago by whatever measurement Claire Randall took. Two decades before, she had traveled back in time and into the arms of a gallant eighteenth-century Scot named Jamie Fraser. Then she returned to her own century to bear his child, believing hi

Ocean and ShipsTime TravelAdventureFantasy
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The Siren Song

Anne Ursu · 435 pages

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The Accidental Keyhand

Jen Swann Downey · 377 pages

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The Merlin Effect

T.A. Barron · 254 pages

The Merlin Effect by T. A. BarronKate Gordon travels to a remote lagoon in Baja California, hoping to help her father discover a sunken Spanish galleon that disappeared centuries ago. In time, she learns that the ship may have carried something far more valuable than all the gold and silver aboard — a mysterious drinking horn out of Arthurian legend, which may have led to the demise of the wiza

Ocean and ShipsMiddle GradeAdventureFantasy
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The Ship Beyond Time

Heidi Heilig · 480 pages

Sixteen-year-old Nix confronts a terrible choice about her relationship with best friend and thief Kashmir when she learns that she is destined to lose the person she most loves.

Ocean and ShipsTime TravelAdventureFantasy
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The Lost Island of Tamarind

Nadia Aguiar · 451 pages

Three children. Alone on the ocean waves, after a fierce storm throws their parents from the Pamela Jane into the icy waters below. Maya, Simon and Penny now face a wild rescue adventure that will lead them to a truly magical place . . . Imagine an island with green mountains looming over pink sandy beaches and tide pools lit by the moon. An island with the darkest of secrets, where pirates lurk a

Ocean and ShipsMiddle GradeAdventureFantasy
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The Search for the Red Dragon

James A. Owen · 371 pages

Nine years after they came together to defeat the Winter King, John, Jack, and Charles return to the Archipelago of Dreams and face a new challenge involving the Lost Boys and giants.

Time TravelMiddle GradeAdventureFantasy
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The Legend of Luke

Brian Jacques · 374 pages

In this twelfth book in the Redwall epic, we go back in time to the days before Redwall, revealing the legend of the first of the magnificent Redwall warriors--Luke, father of Martin. It is that legend Martin hopes to discover when he embarks on a perilous journey to the northland shore, where his father abandoned him as a child. There, within the carcass of a great ship he uncovers what he's been

Ocean and ShipsMiddle GradeAdventureFantasy

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