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• A Wrinkle in Time

  L'Engle, Madeleine

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  A Wrinkle in Time, winner of the Newberry Medal in 1963, is the story of the adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe as they search of Meg's father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Circus Mirandus

  Beasley, Cassie,

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  Do you believe in magic? Micah Tuttle does. Even though his awful Great-Aunt Gertrudis doesn’t approve, Micah believes in the stories his dying Grandpa Ephraim tells him of the magical Circus Mirandus: the invisible tiger guarding the gates, the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Wind in the Door

  L'Engle, Madeleine

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  Just before Meg's little brother, Charles Wallace, falls deathly ill, he sees dragons in the vegetable garden. The dragons turn out to be a being composed of wings and eyes, wind and flame. It is up to Meg along with Meg's friend to save Charles'…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  Schwab, Victoria,

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  France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Time Traveling With a Hamster

  Welford, Ross

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  “My dad died twice. Once when he was thirty nine and again four years later when he was twelve. The first time had nothing to do with me. The second time definitely did, but I would never even have been there if it hadn’t been for his ‘time…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Diego and the Rangers of the Vastlantic

  Baltazar, Armand,

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  The world did not end. At least not permanently. The Time Collision came from beyond the stars, a cosmic event that fractured time and space, tearing apart the earth and reshaping it into something entirely new. This is the world Diego Ribera was…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Swiftly Tilting Planet

  L'Engle, Madeleine

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  In the 3rd of the Time Quintet, by L'Engle, fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world . They are not alone in their quest. His…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Glass Sentence

  Grove, S. E.

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  She has only seen the world through maps. She had no idea they were so dangerous. It is Boston in 1891. Sophia Tims comes from a family of explorers and cartologers who, for generations, have been traveling and mapping the New World—a world changed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kindred

  Butler, Octavia E.

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  Dana, a modern Black woman, is celebrating her 26th birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Phantom Tollbooth

  Juster, Norton, 1929-2021

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  For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Night Circus

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  Morgenstern, Erin

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  The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

  Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963

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  They open a door and enter another world! NARNIA...the land beyond the wardrobe, the secret country known only to Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy...the place where the adventure begins. Soon they discover the Magic and meet Aslan, the Great Lion. In…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Coraline

  Gaiman, Neil

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  The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring.... In the family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close. The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• It's About Time!

  Brown, Don, 1949-

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  This nonfiction book explores time...literally! Measuring time, from the stone circles and giant pyramids of ancient cultures to hourglasses and sundials to early time pieces and watches to atomic clocks. Why are there 12 months a year, 24 hours in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Retake

  Calonita, Jen,

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  A middle grade twist on time travel, about a girl who discovers a mysterious app that allows her to redo different moments captured by social media and mend her friendship with her ex-best friend. For ages 12+

• The Time Machine

  Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946

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  So begins the Time Traveller’s astonishing firsthand account of his journey 800,000 years beyond his own era—and the story that launched H.G. Wells’s successful career and earned him his reputation as the father of science fiction. With a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Time Traveler's Wife

  Niffenegger, Audrey

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  This is the extraordinary love story of Clare and Henry, who met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry was thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry suffers from a rare condition where his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Midnight Library

  Haig, Matt, 1975-

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  Between life and death there is a library. When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

  Turton, Stuart,

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  Evelyn Hardcastle will be murdered at 11:00 p.m. There are eight days, and eight witnesses for you to inhabit. We will only let you escape once you tell us the name of the killer. Understood? Then let's begin . . . Evelyn Hardcastle will die.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Time and Again

  Finney, Jack

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  One of the most beloved tales of our time! Science fiction, mystery, a passionate love story, and a detailed history of Old New York blend together in Jack Finney's spellbinding story of a young man enlisted in a secret government…Read moreRead more of this annotation