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Ages 9-13 J ALEXAND 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. 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 who asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteenth century and prevent his murder by slave traders. J BACCALA Baccalario, Pierdomenico. The Door to Time: After moving from London to an old mansion on the English coast, eleven-year-old twins Jason and Julia discover that their new home has twisting tunnels, 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 near Florence, Italy, with his mother, eleven-year-old Hector meets an Etruscan boy who needs help to foil his 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 two sets 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 own game, and traveling through time. J BOW Bow, Patricia. The Bone Flute: When Camrose receives an ancient bone flute for her twelfth birthday 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. But first she must save the flute from a burning house in another time.

YA BUCKLEY Buckley-Archer, Linda. Gideon the Cutpurse: Ignored by his father and sent to Derbyshire for the weekend, twelve-year-old Peter and his new friend, Kate, are accidentally transported back in time to 1763 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 mystery involving Cornish folklore, magic and the mining-era of the American West before they can return home. J CHETWIN Chetwin, Grace. Friends in Time: Unhappy about her family's upcoming move, twelve-year-old Emma wishes for a friend and is suddenly confronted with a spoiled, lonely girl transported from the 1850s by a mysterious doll. J CHILD Childs, Rob. Time and Again: Thanks to a mysterious old watch, Becky and her twin brother Chris travel back in time, but the novelty soon wears off as they see the consequences of their interference in past events. J COCKCRO Cockroft, Jason. CounterClockwise: With the aid of Bartleby, an enormous Tower of London guard known 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 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. J CURRY Curry, Jane Louise. The Black Canary: As the child of two musicians, twelve-year-old James has no interest in music until he discovers a portal to seventeenth-century London in his uncle's basement, and finds himself in a situation where his beautiful voice and the fact that he is biracial might serve him well. J FALCONE Falcone, L.M. Walking With the Dead: Twelve-year-old Alex’s dad obtains a corpse from ancient Greece for display in his “museum of oddities.” Unfortunately, a surge of electricity awakes the corpse and it begins running through the town. To help the corpse out, Alex and his friend Freddie must take a journey to the underworld. J FARMER Farmer, Penelope. Charlotte Sometimes: When she awakens on her second day at boarding school, 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 meet Neanderthals.

J GRIFFIN Griffin, Peni. Switching Well: Two twelve-year-old girls in San Antonio, Texas, Ada in 1891 and Amber 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 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. J GUTMAN Gutman, Dan. Abner & Me: a Baseball Card Adventure: With his ability to travel through time using baseball cards and photographs, thirteen-year-old Joe and his mother go back to 1863 to ask Abner Doubleday whether he invented baseball, but instead find themselves in the middle of the Battle of Gettysburg. (Series) J HAHN Hahn, Mary Downing. Time for Andrew: 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. J HADDIX Haddix, Margaret Petersen. Found: 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. (Sequel: Sent) J HADDIX Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Running Out of Time: When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1996 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children. J HEMPHILL Hemphill, Michael. Stonewall Hinkleman and the Battle of Bull Run: While participating in a reenactment of the Battle of Bull Run, twelve-year-old Stonewall Hinkleman is transported back to the actual Civil War battle by means of a magic bugle. GN KILBY Kilby, Janice Eaton. The Code Chronicles: A Time-Traveling, Code-Cracking Adventure: In this graphic novel, Oz and his friend Elspeth journey back in time to such destinations as primeval Los Angeles and Jerusalem during the Crusades. When the locale turns dangerous, the reader is asked 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, best friends Rob and Phoebe discover a squat, drooly creature from thirty million years before the dinosaurs that needs their help in tracking down a violent carnivore that must be returned to its proper place in time, or humans will never evolve.

J MCKAY McCay, Hillary. The Amber Cat: While recovering from chicken pox, Robin and his friends are drawn into his mother's story about the adventures she and her friends had years ago with an unusual girl who mysteriously appeared on the nearby beach. J MORRIS Morris, Gilbert. The Dangerous Voyage: Trapped in the year 1620 after a trip in an experimental time machine, fourteen-year-old twins Danny and Dixie set sail for the New World on the Mayflower and discover some surprising things about the faith and life of the pilgrims. J PEARSON Pearson, Kit. A Handful of Time: After her parent’s divorce, Patricia is sent to spend time with cousins who tease her and feel sorry for her. She doesn't fit in. Then Patricia discovers an old watch hidden under a floorboard. She winds it and is taken back to the summer when her mother was twelve. J PREVOST Prévost, Guillaume: The Book of Time: Sam Faulkner travels back in time to Medieval Ireland, ancient Egypt and Renaissance Bruges in search of his missing father. (Book 1 in trilogy) J SCIESZK Scieszka, Jon. The Not So Jolly Roger: A magical book transports Joe, Fred, and Sam back in time to a desert island where they meet up with the pirate Blackbeard. (Time Warp Trio series) J SLEATOR Sleator, William. The Green Futures of Tycho: When he finds an ancient, egg-shaped object with which he travels back and forth in time, eleven-year-old Tycho grapples with several terrible futures he sees for himself and his family. J STEAD Stead, Rebecca. When You Reach Me: As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seem to defy the laws of time and space. J VAUPEL Vaupel, Robin. Rules of the Universe: Thirteen-year-old Austin Hale, an aspiring scientist and disciple of his grandfather, a Nobel Prize-winning molecular physicist, finds himself in control of a powerful energy force that can turn back time and turn his orbit upside down. J WILLIAM Williams, Maiya. The Golden Hour: Thirteen-year-old Rowan and his eleven-year-old sister, Nina, still bereft by the death of their mother the year before, experience an unusual adventure through time when they come to stay with their two eccentric great-aunts in a small town on the Maine coast. (Sequels: Hour of the Cobra & The Hour of the Outlaw) J WINTERS Winters, Jeanette. Tanglewreck: 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 wicked ends.

J WOODRUF Woodruff, Elvira. The Disappearing Bike Shop: Fifth graders Freckle and Tyler meet an unusual bicycle salesman and inventor who turns out to be Leonardo da Vinci, traveling through time. YA YOLEN Yolen, Jane. The Devil’s Arithmetic: Twelve-year-old Hannah resents stories of her Jewish heritage and of the past until, when opening the door during a Passover Seder, she finds herself in Poland during World War II where she experiences the horrors of a concentration camp, and learns why she needs to remember the past. J YOUNG Young, Steve. 15 Minutes: Seventh-grader Casey Little is always late until he discovers a magic watch that takes him back in time, a trick he uses both on and off the football field. J ZUCKER Zucker, Jonny. Dan and the Mudman: When Dan starts to model clay for a class presentation. a strange form takes shape under his hands: he's made a fierce clay giant. As he gazes in awe at his mysterious creation, he's suddenly zapped back in time to the 16th century, where he encounters the mystical Golem of Prague. He helps the Golem right wrongs from the past, and in the process learns how to stand up against the school bully.