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Lily Tripp: Diary of an Accidental Time Traveler

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Piece of Mind

Rob Reger, Jessica Gruner

Thirteen-year-old Emily the Strange visits modern-day Seasidetown and attempts to avoid a "thought thief," save her psychic cousin, thwart her ancestral enemy, and finally claim her unusual inheritance.

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The Pilgrims of Rayne

D.J. MacHale · 547 pages

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Beauty

Sheri S. Tepper · 469 pages

With the critically acclaimed novels The Gate To Women's Country, Raising The Stones, and the Hugo-nominated Grass, Sheri Tepper has established herself as one of the major science fiction writers of out Time. In Beauty, she broadens her territory even further, with a novel that evokes all the richness of fairy tale and fable. Drawing on the wellspring of tales such as "Sleeping Beauty,"

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Moondial

Helen Cresswell · 224 pages

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Timeless

Alexandra Monir · 290 pages

Forced to live with her wealthy, estranged grandparents in New York City after her mother dies, sixteen-year-old Michele retreats to her room where she finds a diary that transports her back to 1910--with life-changing consequences.

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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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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.

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The Wrinkle in Time Quintet - Digest Size Boxed Set

Madeleine L'Engle · 244 pages

A boxed set of five volumes featuring the Murray children and their friends as they travel through time and encounter strange creatures.

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The Orphan of Ellis Island

Elvira Woodruff · 192 pages

During a school trip to Ellis Island, Dominick Cantori, a ten-year-old foster child, travels back in time to 1908 Italy and accompanies two young emigrants to America.

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The Awesomely Awful Melodies of Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang

Amy Ignatow · 203 pages

Lydia and Julie decide to start a rock band with their friends, unfortunately, none of them are very good musicians and suddenly the whole school knows about their band and wants to hear them play.

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Abner & Me

Dan Gutman · 166 pages

Cannons are blasting!Bullets are flying!Wounded soldiers are everywhere!Stosh has time-traveled to 1863, right into the middle of the Civil War. In possibly his most exciting and definitely his most dangerous trip yet, Stosh has decided to answer the question for all time: did Abner Doubleday, a Civil War general, really invent the game of baseball?It's all here: big laughs, dramatic action, fast

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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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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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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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Betrayal

Grace Cavendish, Patricia Finney · 197 pages

Now that Lady Grace is the Queen's secret "Lady Pursuivant"--a title normally reserved for those who pursue wrongdoers of the Crown--she can hardly believe that a new mystery has fallen in her lap. But what else can it be when Lady Sarah, a fellow lady-in-waiting known for her fancy clothes and hoity-toity attitude, is missing and feared kidnapped by the dashing Captain Drake. Despite her hard fee

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Secrets

Jacqueline Wilson · 224 pages

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Saving Lucas Biggs

Marisa de los Santos, David Teague · 304 pages

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The Devil's Arithmetic

Jane Yolen · 170 pages

Hannah thinks tonight's Passover Seder will be the same as always. Little does she know that this year she will be mysteriously transported into the past where only she knows the horrors that await. Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland. Hannah resents stories of her Jewish heritage a

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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

Avi · 235 pages

As the only passenger, and the only female, on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, thirteen-year-old Charlotte finds herself caught between a murderous captain and a mutinous crew.

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Tanglewreck

Jeanette Winterson · 414 pages

Eleven-year-old Silver sets out to find the Timekeeper--a clock that controls time--and to protect it from falling into the hands of two people who want to use the device for their own nefarious ends.

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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.

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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.

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My America: Five Smooth Stones

Kristiana Gregory · 108 pages

In her diary, a young girl writes about her life and the events surrounding the beginning of the American Revolution in Philadelphia in 1776.

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