Ages 9-13

J ALEXAND

Alexander, Lloyd.

Time Cat

Jason and his magic cat Gareth travel through time to visit countries allover the world during different periods of history.

J AVI

Avi.

Something Upstairs: A Tale of Ghosts

When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence,Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a black slave boy whoasks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteenth century and prevent his murder by slavetraders.

J BACCALA

Baccalario, Pierdomenico.

The Door to Time

After moving from London to an old mansion on theEnglish coast, eleven-year-old twins Jason and Julia discover that their new home has twistingtunnels, strange artifacts from around the world, and a mysterious, locked door.

J BARRETT

Barrett, Tracy.

On Etruscan Time

While spending the summer on an archaeological dig nearFlorence, Italy, with his mother, eleven-year-old Hector meets an Etruscan boy who needs help to foilhis treacherous uncle's plan to make him a human sacrifice--1,000 years in the past.

J BARROWS

Barrows, Annie.

The Magic Half

Eleven-year-old Miri Gill feels left out in her family, which has twosets of twins and her, until she travels back in time to 1935 and discovers Molly, her own lost twin,and brings her back to the present day.

J BELL

Bell, Ted.

Nick of Time

Nick McIver is no ordinary boy, fighting pirates, beating Nazis at their owngame, and traveling through time.

J BOW

Bow, Patricia. The Bone Flute:

When Camrose receives an ancient bone flute for her twelfthbirthday from her long-dead great-grandmother, she learns she comes from a long line of “Keepers”of the bone flute who must make a choice between two rivals who can weave in and out of time. Butfirst she must save the flute from a burning house in another time.

YA BUCKLEY

Buckley-Archer, Linda. G

ideon the Cutpurse

Ignored by his father and sent to Derbyshire for theweekend, twelve-year-old Peter and his new friend, Kate, are accidentally transported back in time to1763 England where they are befriended by a reformed cutpurse. (

First in Triliogy

)

J BURKHARD

Burkhard, Daryl.

Riddle in the Mountain:

Three children, transported to 1879, must solve a mysteryinvolving Cornish folklore, magic and the mining-era of the American West before they can returnhome.

J CHETWIN

Chetwin, Grace.

Friends in Time

Unhappy about her family's upcoming move, twelve-year-oldEmma wishes for a friend and is suddenly confronted with a spoiled, lonely girl transported from the1850s by a mysterious doll.

J CHILD

Childs, Rob.

Time and Again

Thanks to a mysterious old watch, Becky and her twin brother Christravel back in time, but the novelty soon wears off as they see the consequences of their interferencein past events.

J COCKCRO

Cockroft, Jason.

CounterClockwise

With the aid of Bartleby, an enormous Tower of London guardknown as a Beefeater, Nathan travels through

time to

stop his father from changing the past.

J COOPER

Cooper, Susan.

King of Shadows

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

J CURRY

Curry, Jane Louise.

The Black Canary

As the child of two musicians, twelve-year-old James hasno interest in music until he discovers a portal to seventeenth-century London in his uncle'sbasement, and finds himself in a situation where his beautiful voice and the fact that he is biracialmight serve him well.

J FALCONE

Falcone, L.M.

Walking With the Dead

Twelve-year-old Alex’s dad obtains a corpse from ancientGreece for display in his “museum of oddities.” Unfortunately, a surge of electricity awakes thecorpse and it begins running through the town. To help the corpse out, Alex and his friend Freddiemust take a journey to the underworld.

J FARMER

Farmer, Penelope.

Charlotte Sometimes

When she awakens on her second day at boardingschool, a young girl finds she has gone back in time to 1918.

J GRAY

Gray, Luli.

Timespinners

A brother and sister go back in time to the Ice Age and meetNeanderthals.

J GRIFFIN

Griffin, Peni.

Switching Well

Two twelve-year-old girls in San Antonio, Texas, Ada in 1891 andAmber in 1991, switch places through a magic well and try desperately to return to their own times.

J GRIFFIN

Griffin, Peni.

11,000 Years Lost

Fascinated with the archaeological dig that is going on near herTexas home, eleven-year-old Esther magically travels back in time to the Pleistocene Era anddiscovers first-hand how people lived at that time.

J GUTMAN

Gutman, Dan.

Abner & Me: a Baseball Card Adventure

With his ability to travel through timeusing baseball cards and photographs, thirteen-year-old Joe and his mother go back to 1863 to askAbner Doubleday whether he invented baseball, but instead find themselves in the middle of theBattle of Gettysburg. (

Series

)

J HAHN

Hahn, Mary Downing.

Time for Andrew

When he goes to spend the summer with his great-aunt inthe family's old house, eleven-year-old Drew is drawn eighty years into the past to trade places withhis great-great-uncle who is dying of diptheria.

J HADDIX

Haddix, Margaret Petersen.

Found

When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are bothadopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with noadults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and twoopposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time.

(Sequel:

Sent

)

J HADDIX

Haddix, Margaret Peterson.

Running Out of Time

When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1996 tourist site under unseen observationby heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dyingchildren.

J HEMPHILL

Hemphill, Michael.

Stonewall Hinkleman and the Battle of Bull Run

While participating in areenactment of the Battle of Bull Run, twelve-year-old Stonewall Hinkleman is transported back to theactual Civil War battle by means of a magic bugle.

GN KILBY

Kilby, Janice Eaton.

The Code Chronicles: A Time-Traveling, Code-Cracking Adventure

Inthis graphic novel, Oz and his friend Elspeth journey back in time to such destinations as primevalLos Angeles and Jerusalem during the Crusades. When the locale turns dangerous, the reader isasked to crack the code on Oz's time machine to help the travelers escape to a new time and place.

J MASON

Mason, Timothy.

The Last Synapsid

On a mountain near their tiny town of Faith, Colorado, bestfriends Rob and Phoebe discover a squat, drooly creature from thirty million years before thedinosaurs that needs their help in tracking down a violent carnivore that must be returned to its properplace in time, or humans will never evolve.