Time Travel for Teens

Escape into a different time with these YA novels that include time travel.
Updated September 19, 2022
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A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle
Paper Book
NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER * TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF ALL TIME * NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM DISNEY Read the ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy classic that has delighted children for over 60 years! "A Wrinkle in Time<...
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs
Paper Book
The #1 New York Times best-selling series An abandoned orphanage on a mysterious island holds the key to supernatural secrets in this unusual and original first book in the one-of-a-kind Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series A captivating blend of horror, dark...
When you reach me /
Stead, Rebecca.
Paper Book
In the 1980s, as her mother prepares to be a contestant on a television game show, Miranda tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
The devil's arithmetic /
Yolen, Jane,
Paper Book
This critically acclaimed novel by award-winning author Jane Yolen is now available in a beautifully designed new edition. Hannah dreads going to her family's Passover Seder -- she's tired of hearing her relatives talk about the past. But when she opens the front door to symbolically welcome the...
Ruby red /
Gier, Kerstin.
Paper Book
Gwyneth Shepherd's sophisticated, beautiful cousin Charlotte has been prepared her entire life for traveling through time. But unexpectedly, it is Gwyneth who in the middle of class takes a sudden spin to a different era! Gwyneth must now unearth the mystery of why her mother would...
Flight
Sherman Alexie
Paper Book
The best-selling author of multiple award-winning books returns with his first novel in ten years, a powerful, fast and timely story of a troubled foster teenager -- a boy who is not a "legal" Indian because he was never claimed by his father -- who learns the true meaning of terror....
The future of us /
Asher, Jay,
Paper Book
"A literary super-duo."--Los Angeles Times "A clever, timely story that will attract any teen with a Facebook account."--Booklist, starred review Josh and Emma are about to discover themselves--fifteen years in the future. It's 1996,...
The Time Travelers
Linda Buckley-Archer
Paper Book
Travel to criminal underworld of eighteenth-century London in this start to a trilogy thatEntertainment Weekly calls "a rollicking historical adventure." The year is 1763. Gideon Seymour, thief and gentleman, is hiding from the villainous Tar Man. Suddenly the sky peels...
Passenger
Alexandra Bracken
Paper Book
"Ambitious and exquisite." ―SARAH J. MAAS, #1 New York Times best-selling author of the A Court of Thorns and Roses series Two worlds collide in this sweeping, romantic novel about a love that crosses centuries, by the #1 New York Times best...
A Thousand Pieces of You
Claudia Gray
Paper Book
Cloud Atlas meets Orphan Black in this epic dimension-bending trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray about a girl who must chase her father's killer through multiple dimensions. Marguerite Caine's physicist parents are known for their groundbreaking achievements. Their...
The Girl from Everywhere
Heidi Heilig
Paper Book
The Girl from Everywhere, the first of two books, blends fantasy, history, and a modern sensibility. Its sparkling wit, breathless adventure, multicultural cast, and enchanting romance will dazzle readers of Sabaa Tahir and Leigh Bardugo.  As the daughter of a time traveler, Nix has...
Tempest
Julie Cross
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling author, Beth Revis on Tempest: "Julie Cross's thrilling debut is brimming with excitement, romance, and intrigue. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough!" The year is 2009. Nineteen-year-old Jackson Meyer is a normal guy... he's in...
Timekeeper
Tara Sim
Paper Book
Two o'clock was missing. In an alternate Victorian world controlled by clock towers, a damaged clock can fracture time--and a destroyed one can stop it completely. It's a truth that seventeen-year-old clock mechanic Danny Hart knows all too well; his father...
Into the Dim
Janet B. Taylor
Paper Book
"Instantly engaging, constantly suspenseful, ultimately poignant and satisfying. Loved it!"--Diana Gabaldon, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Outlander series When fragile, sixteen-year-old Hope Walton loses her mom to an earthquake overseas, her secluded world...
Time Travel for Love and Profit
Sarah Lariviere
Paper Book
When Nephele has a terrible freshman year, she does the only logical thing for a math prodigy like herself: she invents a time travel app so she can go back and do it again (and again, and again) in this funny love story, Groundhog Day for the iPhone generation. Fourteen...
When You and I Collide
Kate Norris
Paper Book
A race against time, war, and the very fabric of the universe itself, perfect for fans of Sliding Doors and 11/22/63. Sixteen-year-old Winnie Schulde has always seen splits--the moment when two possible outcomes diverge, one in her universe and one in another....

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