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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.

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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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Doctor Who: The Feast of the Drowned

Stephen Cole · 256 pages

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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

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The Never War

D.J. MacHale

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Hour of the Olympics

Mary Pope Osborne · 70 pages

Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to retrieve a lost story in ancient Greece, where they witness the original Olympic games and are surprised to find what girls of the time were not allowed to do.

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Wayfarer

Alexandra Bracken · 538 pages

Etta Spencer didn't know she was a traveler until the day she emerged both miles and years from her home. Now, robbed of the powerful object that was her only hope of saving her mother, Etta finds herself stranded once more, cut off from Nicholas-the eighteenth century privateer she loves-and her natural time.

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Rip Tide

Kat Falls · 320 pages

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Jackie & Me

Dan Gutman · 145 pages

Like every other kid in his class, Joe Stoscack has to write a report on an African American who's made an important contribution to society. Unlike every other kid in his class, Joe has a special talent: with the help of old baseball cards, he can travel through time. So for his report, Joe decides to go back to meet one of the greatest baseball players ever, Jackie Robinson, to find out what it

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Knights of the Kitchen Table

Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith · 55 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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The Message

Katherine Applegate · 151 pages

It all started with the dreams. But Cassie didn't pay much attention to them. She and her friends had all been having weird dreams ever since they'd first learned to morph. Maybe it was just some crazy side effect. Then Cassie discovered that she and Tobias had been having the exact same dreams. Dreams about the ocean. And a strange feeling that someone is calling to them. Calling for help. Cas

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Invictus

Ryan Graudin · 480 pages

"A group of time-traveling teens races through history to try to stop time and the multiverse from unraveling"--

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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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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.

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The Storm Begins

Damian Dibben · 400 pages

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The Thief and the Sword

Mike Maihack · 189 pages

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Key Out of Time

Andre Norton · 164 pages

Time Agents Ross Murdock and Gordon Ashe, aided by a Polynesian girl and her team of telephatic dolphins, probe the mystery of the sea-planet men have named Hawaika. Its cities and civilizations have vanished, but our agents are snatched back through a Time Gate and marooned in the midst of the struggle for power that mist have destroyed the planet.

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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

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The Sacred Quest

Chris Heimerdinger · 327 pages

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And the Rest is History

Jodi Taylor · 376 pages

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The Inventor's Secret

Chad Morris · 344 pages

When twins Abby and Derick start junior high at the prestigious academy their grandfather founded, Cragbridge Hall, they discover firsthand the dangers of time travel and must find a way to save their parents, who have been sent to the Titanic the night it sank.

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Timebound

Rysa Walker · 374 pages

When Kate Pierce-Keller's grandmother gives her a strange blue medallion and speaks of time travel, sixteen-year-old Kate assumes the old woman is delusional. But it all becomes horrifyingly real when a murder in the past destroys the foundation of Kate's present-day life. Suddenly, that medallion is the only thing protecting Kate from blinking out of existence. Kate learns that the 1893 killin

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Doctor Who: Engines of War

George Mann · 316 pages

The Great Time War has raged for centuries, ravaging the universe. The Daleks and the Time Lords deploy ever more dangerous weapons in desperate attempts at victory, but there is no end in sight. On the outer rim of the Tantalus Eye, scores of human colony planets are now overrun by Dalek occupation forces. A weary, angry Doctor leads a flotilla of Battle TARDISes against the Dalek stronghold but

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Beautiful Chaos

Gary Russell · 243 pages

On the heels of Wilfred Mott's discovery of a new star, Doctor Who soon discovers something else new, and worryingly bright, in the heavens --something that is heading for Earth. It's an ancient force from the "Dark Times" and it is very, very angry.

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