Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library
Suggested Reading List

Young Adult
TIME TRAVEL


Barron, T. A.  The Ancient One.  Y FIC Barron
While helping her Great Aunt Melanie try to protect an Oregon redwood forest from loggers, thirteen-year-old Kate goes back five centuries through a time tunnel and faces the evil creature Gashra, who is bent on destroying the same forest.

Bellairs, John.  The Trolley to Yesterday.  Y FIC Bellairs
Johnny Dixon and Professor Childermass discover a trolley which transports them back to Constantinople in 1453 as the Turks are invading the Byzantine Empire.

Ciencin, Scott.  Dinoverse.  Y FIC Ciencin
When thirteen-year-old Bertram and three friends find themselves living in dinosaur bodies sixty-seven million years ago, they discover new ways to think about their lives.

Conrad, Pam.  Stonewords : A Ghost Story.  Y FIC Conrad/ Y PB C
Zoe discovers that her house is occupied by the ghost of an eleven-year-old girl, who carries her back to the day of her death in 1870 to try to alter that tragic event.

Cooney, Caroline B. For All Time. Y FIC Cooney
Annie, a teenager in 1999, tries to travel back in time to join her lost love Strat in Egypt in 1899, but instead she ends up in ancient Egypt and in great danger.  Sequel to: Prisoner of time.

Cooney, Caroline B.  Out of Time.  Y FIC Cooney
Strat, the wealthy boy with whom Annie fell in love during her first time trip to the 1890s, needs her help when he reveals her real origin and finds himself confined in a mental asylum.

Cooney, Caroline B.  Prisoner of Time.  Y FIC Cooney
Attempting to break free from the oppression of women in the nineteenth century, sixteen-year-old Devonny steps through time hoping to find the power to change her fate.

Cooper, Susan.  King of Shadows.  Y FIC Cooper
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.

Griffith, Helen V.  Journal of a Teenage Genius.  Y FIC Griffith
In a series of journal entries, a young scientist describes his less-than-successful experiments and trips into the past using his neighbor's time machine.

Hamilton, Virginia.  The Gathering.  YPB H
Justice and her brothers, the first of a new race with extraordinary powers, return to Dustland in order to destroy the force that retards the growth of their advanced civilization.

Hoffman, Mary. Stravaganza : city of secrets.  Y Fic Hoffman
Seventeen-year-old Matt, painfully dyslexic and insecure, discovers that he can travel between worlds after being transported to Talia, where he joins Luciano and other Stravaganti in trying to prevent the di Chimici family's breakthrough into our world.

L'Engle, Madeleine.   Many Waters.   Y FIC L 'Engle/ YPB L
The fifteen-year-old Murry twins, Sandy and Dennys, are accidentally sent back to a strange Biblical time period, in which mythical beasts roam the desert and a man named Noah is building a boat in preparation for a great flood.

Levin, Betty.  Mercy's Mill.   Y FIC Levin
While trying to deal with her new life with a stepfather and a younger foster sister, Sarah encounters a strange boy who claims to have traveled forward in time from the nineteenth century.

Levitin, Sonia.  The Cure.  Y FIC Levitin
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.

Lisson, Deborah.  The Devil's Own.  Y FIC Lisson
Bored on her father's yacht off the west coast of Australia, fifteen-year-old Julianna finds herself swept into a seventeenth-century nightmare of shipwreck, mutiny, and murder.

McKean, Thomas.  The Secret of the Seven Willows.  Y FIC McKean
To prevent the selling of their ancestral home, Martha and Tad use the power of a magical ring to travel back in time.

Paulsen, Gary.  The Time Hackers.  Y FIC Paulsen.
When someone uses futuristic technology to play pranks on twelve-year-old Dorso Clayman, he and his best friend set off on a supposedly impossible journey through space and time trying to stop the gamesters who are endangering the universe.

Paulsen, Gary. The Transall Saga.  Y FIC Paulsen  //  Y PB P
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.

Peck, Richard.  Blossom Culp and the Sleep of Death.   Y FIC P
Blossom, high-school freshman and possessor of "second sight," helps an Egyptian princess, dead for 3500 years, to regain her tomb, and in addition saves a suffragette school teacher from losing her job in 1914.

Prévost, Guillaume.  The Book of Time.  Y Fic Prévost
Sam Faulkner travels back in time to medieval Ireland, ancient Egypt and Renaissance Bruges in search of his missing father.

Wells, H. G.  The Time Machine.  YPB W
A young scientist, to the amazement and disbelief of his colleagues and other experts, has perfected a machine that lets him live one of mankind's oldest dreams--to live in times other than his own.

Whitmore, Arvella.  Trapped Between the Lash and the Gun : A Boy's Journey.  Y FIC Whitmore
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.

Yolen, Jane.  The Devil's Arithmetic.  Y FIC Yolen
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-- and we need to remember the past.

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