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21) Shadowland
Author
Series
Brotherhood of the Conch volume 3
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A search to find the magical conch shell and restore it to its proper home deep in the Himalayas sends Anand and Nisha to the bleak futuristic city of Coal, where the air and water are polluted and the upper classes live in luxury under hermetically sealed domes.
22) Ghost letters
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
While exploring the area around his grandfather's home Gil discovers a bottle that carries messages into the past, finds a genie in a letter, and three letters that were never delivered but would have changed the course of history.
23) The starspun web
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Tess de Sousa leaves Miss Ackerbee's orphanage to live with her new guardian in Roedeer Lodge, taking with her a fondness for scientific experimentation, a pet tarantula named Violet, and a device that allows her to travel to parallel universes.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The story begins at the turn of the previous century, with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book and an international sensation: The Time Machine . It was an era when a host of forces was converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological: the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilizations, and the perfection of clocks....
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 3
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The youngest of the Murry children must travel through time and space in a battle against an evil dictator who would destroy the entire universe.
26) Half magic
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Abarat volume 3
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown, Minnesota, is the only person who can stop the evil Mater Motley who, now that the hour of midnight has come, is prepared to unleash the end of the world.
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 4
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"When something crucial goes missing, eleven-year-old Olive and her friends must decide how to get it back--put their faith in a strange and dangerous magic, their odd new neighbors, or someone more uncertain and terrifying than both"--
Author
Series
Ninja librarians volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Dorrie and her brother Marcus accidently open a portal to Petrarch's Library, where they discover a secret society of warrior librarians who travel in time, protecting the world's greatest thinkers from torture and death for sharing knowledge and ideas.
Author
Series
13th reality volume 2
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
After being kidnapped by Mr. Chu, Atticus "Tick" Higginbottom and his friends Paul and Sofia must survive a series of tests in several different Realities.
32) Prison of sleep
Author
Series
Journals of Zaxony Delatree volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Every time Zaxony Delatree falls asleep he wakes up on a new world. His life has turned into an endless series of brief encounters. But at least he and Minna, the one companion who has found a way of travelling with him, are no longer pursued by the psychotic and vengeful Lector. But now Zax has been joined once again by Ana, a companion he thought left behind long ago. Ana is one of the Sleepers, a group of fellow travellers between worlds. Ana...
Author
Series
13th reality volume 4
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When an all-consuming void from the Fourth Dimension opens up, unleashing monsters throughout the Realities, Mister George has one last weapon at his disposal--the mysterious and powerful Karma button, which might be even more dangerous than anyone imagined.
34) Darien's rise
Author
Series
Passages volume 1
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Kyle and his sister Anna find themselves in an alternate world in which they have special powers to help carry out the will of the Unseen One.
Author
Series
Threads of power volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
It's been seven years since Kell, Lila, and Holland defeated the evil force known as Osaron. Lila has spent those seven years as captain of a ship, exploring her new magical world and occasionally spying for the Crown. Kell has spent them learning to fight with ordinary weapons now that wielding his magic causes him intense pain. Holland, of course, gave his life to defeat Osaron. But now a shadowy organization called the Hand is plotting against...
36) Sabotaged
Author
Series
The missing volume 3
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Time-travelers Jonah and Katherine are summoned to help another missing child from history, this time Virginia Dare from the Roanoke Colony, but their journey is sabotaged and goes dangerously awry, leaving them in the wrong time period. Includes author's note about the history of Roanoke Colony and Virginia Dare.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Time seems commonplace, but it is perhaps the Universe's greatest mystery. At a basic level, the laws of physics say it should be able to flow either forward or backward. And yet we -- and it seems everything in the entire Universe -- experience it in only one direction. Most physicists think they have the answer. In The Janus Point, Julian Barbour argues that those physicists have it all wrong. The most common descriptions of time rely on the concept...
39) 100 cupboards
Author
Series
100 cupboards volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his parents are kidnapped, timid twelve-year-old Henry York leaves his sheltered Boston life and moves to small-town Kansas, where he and his cousin Henrietta discover and explore hidden doors in his attic room that seem to open onto other worlds.
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 5
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Polly's stay with her grandparents in Connecticut becomes an extraordinary experience as she encounters old friends and mysterious strangers and finds herself traveling back in time to play a crucial role in a prehistoric confrontation.
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