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Circus Maximus

Damian Dibben

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Play Makers

Mike Lupica

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Baseball Great

Tim Green · 272 pages

Josh feels like he's starting to make it big! Jaden, the school reporter, says he's going to take the baseball team to number one. Then his dad pulls him off the field and signs him up with Coach Rocky Valentine's youth championship team, the Titans. He says Josh has what it takes to be a baseball great — and the Titans will help him get there.Now Josh is gulping down Rocky's "Super Stax" milkshak

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Tut, Tut

Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith · 74 pages

Everyone’s favorite time-travelers are changing their style! The Time Warp Trio series now features a brand-new, eye-catching design, sure to appeal to longtime fans, and those new to Jon Scieszka’s wacky brand of humor.

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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.

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The Stones of Green Knowe

L.M. Boston · 118 pages

While eagerly following each stage of the new stone manor house his father is building to replace their old wooden Saxon hall, a young boy, part Saxon and part Norman, becomes involved with ancient magic that carries him through time.

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The Never War

D.J. MacHale

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The Time Paradox

Eoin Colfer · 448 pages

Artemis's mother has contracted a deadly disease -- and the only cure lies in the brain fluid of African lemurs. Unfortunately, Artemis himself was responsible for making the lemurs extinct five years ago. Now he must enlist the aid of his fairy friends to travel back in time and save them. Not only that, but he must face his deadliest foe yet...his younger self.

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Time Travelling with a Hamster

Ross Welford · 400 pages

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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.

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On the Blue Comet

Rosemary Wells · 336 pages

When the Depression hits in Cairo, Illinois, and Oscar Ogilvie's father must sell their home and vast model train set-up to look for work in California, eleven-year-old Oscar is left with his dour aunt, where he befriends a mysterious drifter, witnesses a stunning bank robbery, and is suddenly catapulted onto a train that takes him to a different time and place.

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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

J. K. Rowling, John Tiffany · 336 pages

While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son, Albus, must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth:

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The Time Hunters

Carl Ashmore · 278 pages

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

J.K. Rowling · 435 pages

For Harry Potter, it’s the start of another far-from-ordinary year at Hogwarts when the Knight Bus crashes through the darkness and comes to an abrupt halt in front of him. It turns out that Sirius Black, mass-murderer and follower of Lord Voldemort, has escaped – and they say he is coming after Harry. In his first Divination class, Professor Trelawney sees an omen of death in Harry’s tea le

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The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp

Richard Peck · 183 pages

It's Halloween, 1914. Teenage psychic Blossom Culp sneaks into the house where the rest of her class is having a party-and that's when everything goes haywire. Suddenly Blossom is hurled into a time warp. Her psychic powers have found a way to send her into the future-our time. But will they be able to send her back?

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Rush for the Gold: Mystery at the Olympics

John Feinstein

Two teenaged aspiring journalists who are dating solve a mystery at the 2012 Olympic Games, while one simultaneously competes for a gold medal in swimming.

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Stealing Magic

Marianne Malone

Chicago sixth-graders Jack and Ruthie return to the Thorne Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago and once again go back in time while trying to stop an art thief from endangering the miniature rooms.

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King of Shadows

Susan Cooper · 186 pages

While in London as part of an all-boy acting company preparing to perform in a replica of the famous Globe Theatre, Nat Field suddenly finds himself transported back to 1599 and performing in the original theater under the tutelage of Shakespeare himself.

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Charlie Bone And The Time Twister

Jenny Nimmo · 384 pages

Another year at Bloor's Academy and Charlie Bone runs into another adventure! Literally! What will Charlie do now that he is face to face with a mysterious boy displaced out of time and a mysterious glowing marble? What are the Yewbeam sisters up to? And Charlie's Father...?

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See You Later, Gladiator

Jon Scieszka, Adam McCauley · 87 pages

Everyone’s favorite time-travelers are changing their style! The Time Warp Trio series now features a brand-new, eye-catching design, sure to appeal to longtime fans, and those new to Jon Scieszka’s wacky brand of humor.

Time TravelMiddle GradeSeriesMale Lead
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Found

Margaret Peterson Haddix · 314 pages

When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time.

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11 Birthdays

Wendy Mass

After celebrating their first nine same-day birthdays together, Amanda and Leo, having fallen out on their tenth and not speaking to each other for the last year, prepare to celebrate their eleventh birthday separately but peculiar things begin to happen as the day of their birthday begins to repeat itself over and over again.

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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

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The Accidental Keyhand

Jen Swann Downey · 377 pages

Time TravelMiddle GradeTeen ProtagonistSeries

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