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Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jack and his younger sister take a trip in their tree house back to ancient Egypt, where they help a queen's mummy continue her voyage to the Next Life.
82) The night shift
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Only by traveling into the past can Jean discover a happy future... Hidden behind back doors of bars and restaurants and theaters and shops all over New York City are shortcuts -- secret passageways that allow you to jump through time and space to emerge in different parts of the city. No one knows where they came from, but there are rules -- you can only travel through them one way and only at night. When Jean's work friend Iggy introduces her to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Felony & Mayhem Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Shona McMonagle is your ordinary, garden-variety librarian: comfortably padded, in her middle years, expert in various arcane martial arts. She also has an impressive knack for time travel ("impressive" may be overstating things: her first two forays--revolutionary Russia, 19th-century France--went less than smoothly). Her latest mission? Head to 11th-century Scotland, cozy up to Macbeth and Lady M, prevent them from murdering Duncan. In the ordinary...
Author
Series
Publisher
Felony & Mayhem Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Never underestimate a librarian. Readers learned that lesson with the Prefect's first adventure (Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Golden Samovar: "marvelous" and "a laugh-out-loud farce," Publishers Weekly, starred review). Now a certain Count from Transylvania is about to learn it as well, when the intrepid Shona McMonagle (comfortably padded, in her middle years, and a whiz at obscure martial arts) time-travels to 19th-century France to help a village...
Author
Publisher
Tiller Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Peter Wyatt falls asleep in 2020 as a 65-year-old man, only to wake up back in his life as a 15-year-old. After unsuccessful attempts to wake himself from what he can only perceive as a dream, he tries to figure out how he's going to find his way back to his life, and his family, in 2020. As his parents, his therapist, and others around him try to figuve out the change that came over Peter overnight, and what they see as his delusions, Peter tries...
Author
Series
Chronicles of St. Mary's volume 4
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The fourth book in the bestselling British madcap time-travelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone's cup of tea. Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary's Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. Just don't call it "time travel"-these historians "investigate major historical events in contemporary time." And they aren't your harmless eccentrics either; a more accurate...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would...
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The magic treehouse whisks Jack and Annie back to the days of deserted islands, secret maps, hidden gold, and nasty pirates.
Author
Series
Secret explorers volume 11
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Kiki the engineering explorer and Gustavo the history expert get caught up in a spooky adventure when a ghostly figure shows up at a castle before a big tournament"--Provided by publisher.
90) The summer tree
Author
Series
Fionavar tapestry volume 1
Language
English
Description
Five university students--Kimberly, Dave, Jennifer, Kevin, and Paul--meet a wizard who takes them to the heart of all worlds, Fionavar, where they discover who they were truly meant to be.
91) The T-rex attack
Author
Series
Dinosaur Club volume 2
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When Jamie and Tess discover a secret cave that lets them travel back to the time of the dinosaurs,a whole world of adventure awaits them. It's amazing, but dangerous, too! They'll definitely need help from their friends in the Dinosaur Cub"--
92) The dark place
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Every secret comes to haunt you in this YA horror that combines the swoony romance and emotional resonance of John Green with the surrealist horror imagery and razor-sharp wit of Jordan Peele. Seventeen-year-old Hylee Williams didn’t ask to disappear. But she did disappear, and not only that, but when she vanished from our world, she materialized in a dark, twisted version of the night that changed her life forever: the night her older brother...
Author
Series
Chronicles of St. Mary's volume 5
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary's Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. Just don't call it "time travel"--These historians "investigate major historical events in contemporary time." And they aren't your harmless eccentrics either; a more accurate description, as they ricochet around history, might be unintentional disaster-magnets. The Chronicles of St. Mary's tells the chaotic adventures...
Author
Series
Sirens of the Scottish Borderlands volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a quest to bring peace to her beloved Scottish borderlands, fortune-teller and spy Undine Douglas agrees to marry a savage English colonel. Desparate to delay the wedding long enough to undermine the army's plans, Undine casts a spell to summon help and unexpectedly finds herself under the imperious gaze of handsome and talented Michael Kent, a twenty-first-century British director. Though he abandoned acting years ago, Michael will play whatever...
Publisher
HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The FGTeeV family gamers have survived their fair share of glitchy gaming consoles and weird goings-on. But when Duddz can't stop gaming on his fancy new eWatch, the whole family winds up sucked into the watch and on a perilous adventure across space and time! To find their way home, Duddz, Moomy, Lexi, Mike, Chase, and Shawn are going to have to avoid being eaten by a T-Rex, win a joust against a brave knight, and fight angry space invaders! But...
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie on a mission to the Ice Age where they encounter Cro-Magnons, cave bears, sabertooth tigers, and woolly mammoths.
Author
Series
Chronicles of St. Mary's volume 6
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The sixth book in the bestselling British madcap time-traveling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone's cup of tea. Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary's Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. Just don't call it "time travel"--These historians "investigate major historical events in contemporary time." And they aren't your harmless eccentrics either; a more accurate...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A collection of short fiction from Terry Pratchett, spanning the whole of his writing career from schooldays to Discworld and the present day. In the four decades since his first book appeared in print, Terry Pratchett has become one of the world's best-selling and best-loved authors. Here for the first time are his short stories and other short-form fiction collected into one volume. A Blink of the Screen charts the course of Pratchett's long writing...
Author
Series
Chronicles of St. Mary's volume 7
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The seventh book in the bestselling British madcap time-travelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone's cup of tea. Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary's Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. Just don't call it "time travel"--These historians "investigate major historical events in contemporary time." And they aren't your harmless eccentrics either; a more accurate...
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