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Tag: Time Travel
Book Review: Westfallen by Ann and Ben Brashares
A really good read that will keep readers turning pages and ready for book two!
Book Review: The Secret Library by Kekla Magoon
This great read is a real page-turner and will especially appeal to readers who love family stories and readers who (like me) like their fantasy to be quite grounded in reality. An absolutely smashing read that everyone should pick up this summer!
It’s Been Twenty-Five Years: Thoughts on Erin Entrada Kelly’s The First State of Being, a guest post by Susan Uhlig
In 1999, almost everyone was worried about a computer flaw or bug nicknamed Y2K for year 2000. Now Erin Entrada Kelly has put the subject in a middle grade novel, The First State of Being.
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Using Time Travel to Explore Parent-Child Relationships, a guest post by Emily Barth Isler
In The Color of Sound, twelve year old musical prodigy Rosie stumbles upon a shed on her grandparents’ property and, once inside, meets a girl who is, against all odds, a version of her own mother at age twelve.
Book Review: The Sky Over Rebecca by Matthew Fox
This quiet story is full of tension and will keep readers engaged as they watch Kara and Rebecca forge a tight friendship irrespective of time or place. A beautiful story of time travel and compassion.
My Mother’s Yearbook and Other Mysteries, a guest post by Lisa Graff
If I could leap back in time to interact with my parents as kids, I would 100% take that opportunity. I bet most of us would.
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Book Review: We the Future by Cliff Lewis
Given the increasing horrors of climate change and the massive amounts of eco-anxiety young people are carrying, this story about action, attention, and organizing will resonate.
Book Review: Throwback by Maurene Goo
An entertaining and, certainly for Sam, illuminating read about life in the 1990s and what it's like to see someone through a different lens.
Book Review: Spin Me Right Round by David Valdes
A modern-day gay teen time travels back to 1985 and wonders if he can help change the past without changing his future.
Playing with Time, a guest post by G. Z. Schmidt
In grade school, we were taught that a story has a beginning, middle, and end, and that the events always progress in a clear, chronological order. Me, I’ve always enjoyed stories that play around with time.
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