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Avi. SOMETHING UPSTAIRS.
The ghost of a slave boy rises out of a bloodstain on the floor of a Providence, Rhode Island, attic room and asks Kenny Huldorf to travel back with him to 1800 and stop his murder.

Bellairs, John. THE TROLLEY TO YESTERDAY.
The Professor discovers a trolleycar that can travel through time in the cellar of his house; and he, Johnny Dixon, and Fergie try to save the city of Constantinople from the invading Turks in 1453.

Bond, Nancy. A STRING IN THE HARP.
American Peter Morgan hates life in a small Welsh village until he finds an old harp tuning key that carries him back in time to the days of the legendary bard Taliesin.

Cresswell, Helen. TIME OUT.
On October 8, 1887, Tweeny and her parents, the butler and parlormaid in a large London house, set off on their first holiday ever--to one hundred years in the future--via a magic spell.

Curry, Jane Louise. PARSLEY SAGE, ROSEMARY & TIME.
After picking a sprig of a plant labeled "Time" from an abandoned herb garden, Rosemary Walpole and a cat named Parsley Sage find themselves in the middle of a witch hunt in 1722.

Davies, Andrew. CONRAD'S WAR.
Conrad, who loves wars, the army, killing, guns, and his dog Towzer, builds a tank that sends him, his dad, and Towzer back through a leak in time to WW II.

Eager, Edward. THE TIME GARDEN.
The Natterjack, a magical creature who lives in their aunt's garden, teaches four children how to travel through "thyme."

Farmer, Penelope. CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES.
Sometimes when she wakes up in her bed at boarding school she is Charlotte-- and then sometimes it is forty years earlier and everyone calls her Clare.

Fleischman, Paul. TIME TRAIN.
Miss Pym's field trip to the Dinosaur National Monument in Utah takes an unexpected turn when the class boards the Rocky Mountain Unlimited and finds themselves back to the days of the dinosaurs.

Hurmence, Belinda. A GIRL CALLED BOY.
Spoiled Blanche Overtha Yancey (nicknamed Boy), bored with the same old stories of slave days from her relatives, wanders off during a picnic into her family's past and becomes a slave herself.

Nolan, Dennis. DINOSAUR DREAM.
Wilbur takes a lost baby dinosaur home to the Jurassic period over 140 million years ago.

Norton, Andre. LAVENDER-GREEN MAGIC.
When the Wade children go to live with their grandparents in the country, they explore an old garden maze that leads them back through time to a witch's cottage.

Norton, Mary. BED-KNOB AND BROOM-STICK.
A witch's spell on a bed-knob sends three children, a bed, and the neighborhood witch journeying backwards and forwards in time.

Ormondroyd, Edward. TIME AT THE TOP.
One Wednesday when everything went wrong, Susan Shaw took the elevator to what she thought was the seventh floor of her apartment building in New York City but arrived at a house in the country in the year 1881.

Park, Ruth. PLAYING BEATIE BOW.
Abigail Kirk stops to watch a group of street children playing a game called Beatie Bow and is carried back in time to the nineteenth century of the real Beatie Bow.

Paton-Walsh, Jill. A CHANCE CHILD.
Creep was unloved, neglected, and kept locked in a closet under the stairs-- until the day he escaped into the past.

Pearce, Philippa. TOM'S MIDNIGHT GARDEN.
When the grandfather clock strikes thirteen, Tom finds himself in Hatty's garden from fifty years ago.

Scieszka, Jon. KNIGHTS OF THE KITCHEN TABLE.
Abracadabra! Joe and his friends open a mysterious birthday present from Uncle Joe the magician that takes them back to the days of King Arthur.

Stolz, Mary. CAT IN THE MIRROR.
A bump on the head sends Erin Gandy back 3,000 years to ancient Egypt in the days of the pharaohs.

Tannen, Mary. THE WIZARD CHILDREN OF FINN.
Fiona and Bran McCool travel back in time to the Ireland of the legendary hero Finn McCool through the pages of an old and magical book.

Thomas, Jane Resh. THE PRINCESS IN THE PIGPEN.
A feverish and surprised Elizabeth, pampered daughter of the Duke of Umberland, wakes up, not in a featherbed in her seventeeth-century London home but in a pigpen on a farm in modern-day Iowa.

Weldrick, Valerie. TIME SWEEP.
Laurie Langridge goes to sleep in an old brass bed in his new house in Sydney, Australia, and wakes up a century earlier in London next to Frank Kilderbee, a young crossing sweeper.

Wiseman, David. THIMBLES.
A pair of thimbles--one golden and one of battered metal--carry Cathy Aitkin back to a workers' rights demonstration at Manchester, England, in 1819 and into the lives of rich Sophia and working-class Kate.

Yolen, Jan. THE DEVIL'S ARITHMETIC.
When Hannah opens the door to welcome the prophet Elijah as part of the Passover seder ritual, she discovers she is no longer in her grandparent's apartment in New Rochelle, New York, but has traveled back in time to Poland in the 1940s during the Holocaust.


Compiled by Kathy Kire, General Library, Children's Room, Boston Public Library, 1994.


 


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