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All books can be found by the author's last name in the Juvenile Fiction area unless noted on the booklist.
- Alcock, Vivien.
- The Red-eared Ghosts.
Mary Frewin has seen "ghosts" since she was a baby and after learning about her great-great grandmother and stumbling through a time wreck near her home in London, she understands why.
- Alexander, Lloyd.
- Time Cat.
Jason and his magic cat Gareth travel through time to visit countries all over the world during different periods of history.
- Alphin, Elaine Marie.
- Ghost Cadet.
Twelve-year-old Benji, in Virginia visiting the grandmother he has never met, meets the ghost of a Virginia Military Institute cadet who was killed in the Battle of New Market in 1864 and helps him recover his family's treasured gold watch.
- Asimov, Janet.
- Norby and Yobo's Great Adventure.
When Jeff and his robot Norby accompany Admiral Yobo to prehistoric times so the admiral can do family research, the trip turns into a dangerous adventure.
- 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 who asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteenth century and prevent his murder by slave traders.
- Baccalario, Pierdomenico.
- The Door to Time. 2006
The first in a new series written by the mysterious "Ulysses Moore," this book introduces 11-year-old twins Jason and Julia, who stumble upon a mysterious door in their new London mansion and are determined to find out what's behind it. Includes puzzles, and codes.
- The Long Lost Map. 2006.
The adventure begun in "The Door to Time" continues in this thrilling sequel, in which Jason, Julia, and Rick are transported to Ancient Egypt. But when they are accidentally separated, Julia ends up at Argo Manor again--and she can't get back to Egypt, or to the boys.
- Banks, Lynne Reid.
- The Indian in the Cupboard.
A nine-year-old boy receives a plastic Indian, a cupboard, and a little key for his birthday and finds himself involved in adventure when the Indian comes to life in the cupboard and befriends him.
- The Key to the Indian.
As Omri, his father, and other members of his family learn more about the cupboard in his room, together and separately they are caught up in several dangerous adventures that reveal more about its powers.
- The Mystery of the Cupboard.
After the family moves to the country to a house recently inherited by his mother, Omri finds many secrets revealed to him when he accidently discovers the link between the house and the magic cupboard. Sequel to "The Secret of the Indian."
- The Secret of the Indian.
In this third book about Omri and his magic cupboard, Omri and his friend Patrick must risk grownups discovering their secret when they find themselves in need of a friend's toy plastic doctors to save wounded people from the dangerous world of the Old West which the cupboard enables them to enter.
- Benderly, Beryl Lieff.
- Jason's Miracle; a Hanukkah Story.
Twelve-year-old Jason has ambivalent feelings about Hanukkah until he finds himself transported back to the time of the Maccabean revolt in Judea.
- Brockmeier, Kevin.
- City of Names.
After receiving a strange book at school, ten-year-old Howie Quackenbush discovers that he can transport himself to various places around his town and he learns something vitally important about his soon-to-be-born baby sister.
- Browne, N.M.
- Hunted.
A young woman in a coma becomes a magical red fox in another space and time, where she plays a vital role in a rebellion against the king.
- Chetwin, Grace.
- Jason's Seven Magical Night Rides.
A boy's love of horses and wish to know what it would be like to have a father bring a series of rides on some mythical creatures and encounters with such characters as Poseidon and Cheiron the Centaur.
- Cooper, Susan.
- King of Shadows.
While in London as part of an all-boy acting company preparing to perforn 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.
- Cresswell, Helen.
- Time out.
Twelve-year-old Tweeny and her parents, servants in a London house in 1887, use a book of magic spells to travel forward in time 100 years and find the England of 1987 to be an astonishing place.
- The Watchers: a Mystery of Alton Towers.
Two runaway children hide out in a theme park and become enmeshed in an unearthly battle between the forces of good and evil.
- Downer, Ann.
- Hatching Magic.
When a thirteenth-century wizard confronts twenty-first century Boston while seeking his pet dragon, he is followed by a rival wizard and a very unhappy demon, but eleven-year-old Theodora Oglethorpe may hold the secret to setting everything right.
- Eager, Edward.
- Half Magic.
Faced with a dull summer in the city, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha suddenly find themselves involved in a series of extraordinary adventures after Jane discovers an ordinary-looking coin that seems to grant wishes.
- Knight's Castle.
Four cousins, Roger, Ann, Eliza, and Jack, have an extraordinary summer when, after an old toy soldier comes to life, they find themselves transported back to the days of Robin Hood and Ivanhoe.
- Magic by the Lake.
On a vacation, four children find themselves with an entire lake full of magic, which they must tame and learn how to handle in order to find the treasure that waits for them. Sequel to HALF MAGIC.
- The Time Garden.
While spending the summer in a house by the sea, four cousins, Roger, Ann, Eliza, and Jack, discover a bank of wild thyme whose magic propels them on a series of adventures back and forth through time. Sequel to KNIGHT'S CASTLE.
- Enzensberger, Hans Magnus.
- Lost in Time.
A German teenager begins to lose his identity and any hope of returning to the present when his time-traveling journeys take him further and further into the past.
- Etchemendy, Nancy.
- The Power of Un.
When he is given a device that will allow him to "undo" what has happened in the past, Gib Finney is not sure what event from the worst day in his life he should change in order to keep his sister from being hit by a truck.
- Falcone, Lucy M.
- Walking with the Dead.
A 2000 year old Greek corpse needs Alex's help! Alex and his sidekick Freddie find themselves on a mission to the world of the dead all to try and help a lost soul in trouble.
- Fleischman, Sid.
- The 13th Floor: A Ghost Story.
When his older sister disappears, twelve-year-old Buddy Stebbins follows her back in time and finds himself aboard a seventeenth-century pirate ship captained by a distant relative.
- Gray, Luli.
- Timespinners.
A brother and sister go back in time to the Ice Age and meet Neanderthals.
- Griffith, Helen V.
- Dinosaur Habitat.
After twelve-year-old Nathan's pesky younger brother Ryan claims to have found a dinosaur fossil, they are suddenly transported into a misty world where Ryan's toy dinosaurs are alive.
- Griffith, Peni R.
- 11,000 Years Lost.
Fascinated with the archaeological dig that is going on near her Texas home, eleven-year-old Esther magically travels back in time to the Pleistocene era and discovers first-hand how people lived at that time. Includes a list of sources and author's notes.
- Gutman, Dan.
- Babe & me: A Baseball Card Adventure.
With their ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe and his father have the opportunity to find out whether Babe Ruth really did call his shot when he hit that home run in the third game of the 1932 World Series against the Chicago Cubs.
- The Edison Mystery (Qwerty Stevens, Back in Time Series).
Thirteen-year-old Robert "Qwerty" Stevens uses the time machine he finds in his backyard to visit Thomas Edison's workshop in 1879, and there helps develop the electric lightbulb, but then needs his sister's help to return to his own time.
- Honus & me: A Baseball Card Adventure.
Joey, who loves baseball but is not very good at it, finds a valuable 1909 Honus Wagner card and travels back in time to meet Honus.
- Jackie & me: A Baseball Card Adventure.
With his ability to travel through time by using baseball cards, Joe goes back to 1947 to meet Jackie Robinson, turning into a black boy in the process.
- Shoeless Joe & me: A Baseball Card Adventure.
Joe Stoshack travels back to 1919, where he meets Shoeless Joe Jackson and tries to prevent the fixing of the World Series in which Jackson was wrongly implicated.
- Hahn, Mary Downing.
- The Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story.
After Ashley and Kristi find an antique doll buried in old Miss Cooper's garden, they discover that they can enter a ghostly turn-of-the-century world by going through a hole in the hedge.
- Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story.
When he goes to spend the summer with his great-aunt in the family's old house, eleven-year-old Drew is drawn eighty years into the past to trade places with his great-great-uncle who is dying of diptheria.
- Hickman, Janet.
- Ravine.
As Ulf searches for a friend to ease his difficult life in the castle keep of a cruel king and queen and, in a very different time and place, Jeremy looks for adventure in the war games he plays with his best friend, the two boys are brought together by Jeremy's dog.
- Holman, Felice.
- Real.
In 1932, while exploring the California desert, Colly finds a Cahuilla Indian boy and his grandfather, who are trapped in a Forever Day that they are constantly repeating from their lives in 1774.
- Humphreys, Chris.
- The Fetch. 2006.
"In the attic, in an old sea chest, secreted away, are a mysterious journal and a set of runes: 24 stones that will change Sky's life forever. When Sky and his cousin Kristin find their Norwegian grandfather's runes, Sky feels like the wait is over, like he can now release the breath he wasn't even aware he'd been holding. But when he lays out the stones in a runecast they find in Sigurd's journal, he is catapulted into a world filled with more possibilities and more danger than he ever imagined.
- Jones, Diana Wynne.
- Wild Robert.
While trying to get away from the tourists visiting the stately home where her parents are caretakers, Heather accidentally summons a mischievous 350-year-old youth with magical powers and nothing is ever the same again.
- Katz, Welwyn, Wilton .
- Time Ghost.
In this fascinating time-travel adventure, set in the twenty-first century, twelve-year-old Sara isn't much interested in her grandmother's plans to take her, her best friend, Dani, and their older brothers, Karl and Josh, to the North Pole.
- Kehret, Peg.
- The Volcano Disaster.
When an "Instant Commuter" transports him to Mount Saint Helens during its eruption, twelve-year-old Warren cannot get himself back to his own home in his own time.
- Kladstrup, Kristin.
- The Book of Story Beginnings.
After moving with her parents to Iowa, twelve-year-old Lucy discovers a mysterious notebook that can bring stories to life and which has a link to the 1914 disappearance of her great uncle.
- Langton, Jane.
- The Time Bike.
Eddy Hall receives a mysterious gift from India, an old-fashioned bike that transports its rider through time.
- Levitin, Sonia.
- The Cure.
A sixteen-year-old boy living in 2407 collides with the past when he finds himself in Strasbourg in 1348 confronting the anti-Semitism that sweeps through Europe during the Black Plague.
- MacGrory.
- The Secret of the Ruby Ring.
When she makes a wish on a special ring, eleven-year-old Lucy is transported from her pampered present to a somewhat turbulent time in Ireland in 1885, where she must work as a servant for a wealthy family until she can find a way home.
- McKean, Thomas.
- Secret of the Seven Willows.
To prevent the selling of their ancestral home, Martha and Tad use the power of a magical ring to travel back in time.
- Meacham, Margaret.
- Quiet! Yuo're Invisible.
With his mother expecting a baby and a bully living next door, fifth grader Hoby Hobson has enough to worry about even before Zirc, a time-traveling boy who can sometimes be invisible, shows up in his backyard.
- Mowry, Jess.
- Ghost Train.
Thirteen-year-old Remi, who has just moved to California from Haiti, and his neighbor Niya travel back in time to solve the mystery of the night train.
- Park, Linda Sue.
- Archer's Quest.
Twelve-year-old Kevin is shocked when Chu-mong, legendary ruler of ancient Korea, suddenly arrives with his bow and arrows in Kevin's room in Dorchester, New York. But Kevin is drawn to the brave stranger, who must return home before the Year of the Tiger ends the next day and history is changed forever.
- Paulsen, Gary.
- The Transall Saga.
While backpacking in the desert, thirteen-year-old Mark falls into a tube of blue light and is transported into a more primitive world, where he must use his knowledge and skills to survive.
- Pearce, Phillipa.
- Tom's Midnight Garden.
Tom is unhappy that he must spend time with his aunt and uncle until he discovers that he can enter the past through a kitchen door into a garden that no longer exists in the present.
- Peck, Richard.
- Voices after Midnight.
Living with their sister and parents in a rented house in New York City during the summer, Chad and Luke uncover a mystery involving the former tenants of the house when the two brothers slip back in time to 1888.
- The Great Interactive Dream Machine.
Josh Lewis is unwillingly drawn into the computer experiments of Aaron, his friend and fellow classmate at an exclusive New York private school, and the two find themselves uncontrollably transported through space and time.
- Penn, Malka.
- The Hanukkah Ghosts.
On a visit to England, Susan finds herself mysteriously transported back to the time of World War II, where she meets a viennese jewish refugee and a prejudiced boy who help her understand and appreciate her background.
- Prevost, Guillaume.
- The Book of Time. 2007.
In the Faulkner Antiquarian Bookstore,14-year-old Sam Faulkner searches for his missing father. But when Sam slips an old coin into a statue, hes swept back in time--to Scotland in 800 A.D.--where he must find both the statue and another coin so he can return to the present.
- Prince, Maggie.
- The House on Hound Hill.
Soon after she, her mother, and her younger brother move into an old house on what was once known as Beggarsgate, Emily begins to have terrifyingly real glimpses of scenes of 17th century London devastated by the plague.
- Reiss, Kathryn.
- Time Windows.
Thirteen-year-old Miranda moves with her family to a small Massachussets town and a new house in which a mysterious dollhouse allows her to see into the past, where she discovers her new home exerts an evil influence on the women of each generation of inhabitants--including Miranda's mother.
- Paint by Magic.
After his mom suddenly starts acting old-fashioned, eleven-year-old Connor is transported back to 1926, where he must discover and break the mysterious hold an obsessed artist has on his mom that is trapping her between times.
- Rodda, Emily.
- Finders Keepers.
While playing a computer game, Patrick is transported to a parallel world and invited to participate in a game show in which he must find three lost items to win several fabulous prizes.
- Scieszka, Jon.
- It's all Greek to Me.
As they are about to go on stage, Joe, Fred, and Sam are transported back to the time of Zeus and the other gods in Greek mythology, who, strangely enough, behave much as the characters in the trio's class play.
- Hey Kid, Want to Buy a Bridge?
Thanks to their magical book, Fred, Sam, and Joe inadvertently travel through time to 1877 New York City, where they and their granddaughters, who have also come from the future, help them find a way back to their own time.
- See you Later, Gladiator.
Joe, Fred, and Sam demonstrate some of their professional wrestling moves, including the "Time Warp Trio Blind Ninja Smackdown," when they're transported to ancient Rome and forced to fight as gladiators in the Colosseum.
- Sinykin, Sheri.
- A Matter of Time.
When Jody, a sixth grade boy, travels back in time to when his father was his age, he is finally able to mend their fragile relationship.
- Sleator, William.
- Boltzmon!
A boltzmon, remnant of a black hole, materializes in eleven-year-old Chris's bedroom and transports him to a parallel world, where he encounters the bitter woman his overbearing older sister will become, after his death, if he cannot convince her to change.
- Sobol, Donald J.
- My Name is Amelia.
While sailing a sloop to St. Thomas, sixteen-year-old Lisa Maddock is knocked overboard and finds herself on an unknown island where she meets ten-year-old Amelia Earhart who has been snatched from the past as part of a fantastic experiment.
- Stewart, Jennifer J.
- If that Breathes Fire, We're Toast.
When eleven-year-old Rick and his mother move from San Diego to Tucson he is not too happy about the change, but when they get a fire-breathing, time-traveling dragon to replace their broken furnace, his new life starts to get more interesting.
- Venokur, Ross.
- The Cookie Company.
Thirteen-year-old Alex, the unluckiest boy alive, opens an unusual fortune cookie and is whisked into another world, where he is threatened by the evil game show hostess Cypress Vine.
- Whitmore, Arvella.
- Trapped between the Lash and the Gun .
Twelve-year-old Jordan is becoming dangerously involved with a street gang when he is suddenly transported through time to become a slave on the plantation of his ancestors.
- Williams, Ruth L.
- The Silver Tree.
Micki Silver must go back in time to stop a wish she has made from coming true--one that could destroy her family.
- Woodruff, Elvira.
- George Washington's Socks.
In the midst of a backyard camp-out, five children find themselves transported back into the time of George Washington, where they begin to live out American history first hand and learn the sober realities of war.
- The Orphan of Ellis Island.
During a school trip to Ellis Island, Dominic Cantori, a ten-year-old foster child, travels back in time to 1908 Italy and accompanies two young emigrants to America.
- Yolen, Jane.
- The Devil's Arithmetic.
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.
- The Pictish Child.
While visiting relatives in Scotland, three children come to the aid of a refugee from the distant past, a young Pict girl
escaping a massacre of her people.
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