Adventures Through Time

The basis for so many wonderful gems in our collection of children’s fiction lies in the question of what it would be like to travel back into the past. In these books, we also meet characters who encounter children from other times, as though they have stepped from one time into another: a time slip. Clocks striking 13, medieval mansions, magical statues in mysterious gardens, sleeping in a certain bed or dressing up in historical clothing – discover what trigger it might be that could open a window for you to explore another world!

Updated June 30, 2024
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The House of Arden /
Nesbit, E.
Paper Book
Young Edred Arden and his sister Elfrida have inherited Arden Castle, but they will loose it forever unless they can find the long-lost treasure of the Ardens before Edred's birthday. With the aid of the Mouldiwarp of Arden -- a tempermental but magical golden-furred mole -- they travel back thorugh...
Tom's midnight garden /
Pearce, Philippa
Paper Book
Winner of the Carnegie Medal From beloved author Philippa Pearce, a transcendent story of friendship that Philip Pullman, bestselling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, called "a perfect book."  When Tom's brother gets sick, he's shipped off to spend what he's...
Countdown to yesterday /
Marr, Shirley,
Paper Book
Rebecca Stead's The List of Things That Will Not Change gets a "Space Oddity" sci-fi twist in this "exceptionally lovely and uplifting" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) middle grade novel about one boy's journey to go back in time to prevent his parents' divorce. ...
A traveller in time /
Uttley, Alison,
Paper Book
The "superb" time travel adventure of one lonely young girl, a remarkable family, and an impossible task, set between modern and Elizabethan England (The Washington Post) "A beautiful book . . . a form of enchanting ghost story, with the ghosts drawn in with the grace...

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