18 books like A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Time Quintet #3)
The Phantom Tollbooth
The Phantom Tollbooth is a children's fantasy adventure novel written by Norton Juster with illustrations by Jules Feiffer. It was published in 1961 by Random House (USA). It tells the story of a bored young boy named Milo who unexpectedly receives a magic tollbooth one afternoon and, having nothing better to do, drives through it in his toy car, transporting him to the Kingdom of Wisdom, once…
Shares: Science Fiction
Timeriders
Littérature jeunesse: roman de science-fiction
Liam O'Connor aurait dû mourir en mer en 1912. Maddy Carter aurait dû mourir en avion en 2010. Sal Vikram aurait dû mourir dans un incendie en 2026. Mais à la dernière seconde, sauvés par un homme mystérieux, ils ont échappé à leur destin. Désormais, les trois adolescents vivent en marge de l'Histoire, au service d'une agence dont nul ne connaît…
Shares: Space and time, Time Travel, Science Fiction, Children's fiction
Zombies vs. Unicorns
It's a question as old as time itself: which is better, the zombie or the unicorn? In this anthology, edited by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier (unicorn and zombie, respectively), strong arguments are made for both sides in the form of short stories. Half of the stories portray the strengths--for good and evil--of unicorns and half show the good (and really, really bad-ass) side of zombies.…
Shares: Unicorns, Children's fiction
A Walk in Wolf Wood
When a weeping man in a strange costume passes their picnic spot and disappears into the nearby woods, a brother and sister decide to follow him and soon find themselves involved in the rescue of a werewolf in the 14th century.
Shares: Space and time, Time Travel, Children's fiction
A Wind in the Door (Time Quintet #2
A Wind in the Door is a young adult science fantasy novel by Madeleine L'Engle. It is a companion book to A Wrinkle in Time, and part of the Time Quartet (and by extension the Time Quintet).
It is November. When Meg comes home from school, Charles Wallace tells her he saw dragons in the twin’s vegetable garden. That night Meg, Calvin and C.W. go to the vegetable garden to meet the Teacher…
Shares: Murry family, Brothers and sisters, Fantasy fiction, Science Fiction
Dragon Magic
A Hidden Treasure
Sig, Artie, Kim, and Ras live in the same neighborhood and go to the same school, but they have nothing in common…until each of them sneaks into the old abandoned house on the corner and discovers the strange puzzle box covered with pictures of four dragons. Drawn by powerful magic, the boys find themselves bound together by a mystery that will transform them all—and transport…
Shares: Space and time, Time Travel, Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction
Red Hart Magic
When his father marries her mother, Chris Fitton and Nan Mallory--both twelve--are thrust into a new life. While their parents are enjoying an extended honeymoon, Chris and Nan must live with Aunt Elizabeth, attend new schools, and worst of all, be civil to one another. They're certain that their future is bleak--until Chris's visit to the Salvation Army store. It is there that he finds the model…
Shares: Space and time, Brothers and sisters, Time Travel, Fantasy fiction
Time Cat
Jason and his magic cat Gareth travel through time to visit countries all over the world during different periods of history.
Shares: Space and time, Time Travel, Children's fiction
A Traveller in Time
A wonderful history book about time travel between modern day England and the medieval period when a small girl finds herself privy to the goings on of the Babbington plot to rescue Mary Queen of Scots.
Shares: Space and time, Time Travel, Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction
Endgame
Sky piracy is a bit out of Darian Frey’s league. Fate has not been kind to the captain of the airship Ketty Jay—or his motley crew. They are all running from something. Crake is a daemonist in hiding, traveling with an armored golem and burdened by guilt. Jez is the new navigator, desperate to keep her secret from the rest of the crew. Malvery is a disgraced doctor, drinking himself to death. So…
Shares: Nuclear warfare, Children's fiction
The Cave of Time
The reader enters a mysterious cave and by following the instructions on each page can have several different adventures backward and forward in time.
Shares: Space and time, Time Travel, Children's fiction
Vacation Under the Volcano
Their magic tree house takes Annie and Jack to Pompeii just as Vesuvius is about to erupt, and they must find a Roman scroll before everything is covered with burning ash.
Shares: Space and time, Brothers and sisters, Time Travel, Children's fiction
The Homeward Bounders
Once he becomes a pawn in a game played by a powerful group he calls them, 12-year-old Jamie is repeatedly catapulted through space and time.
Shares: Space and time, Time Travel, Children's fiction
The Trolley to Yesterday
Johnny Dixon and Professor Childermass discover a trolley which transports them back to Constantinople in 1453 as the Turks are invading the Byzantine Empire.
Shares: Space and time, Time Travel, Children's fiction
The Merchant of Death (Pendragon #1)
Bobby Pendragon is a seemingly normal fourteen-year-old boy. He has a family, a home, and even Marley, his beloved dog. But there is something very special about Bobby.
He is going to save the world.
And not just Earth as we know it. Bobby is slowly starting to realize that life in the cosmos isn't quite what he thought it was. And before he can object, he is swept off to an alternate dimension…
Shares: Space and time, Time Travel, Fantasy fiction, Science Fiction
Dustland
Four children, all possessing extraordinary mental powers, are projected far into the future to a bleak region called Dustland.
Shares: Space and time, Time Travel, Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction
Starlight surprise
Lauren does not believe in ghosts, but there is definitely something spooky going on down by the creek and one night, as Lauren and Twilight, her magical unicorn, fly over the woods near the scary tree house, they make a surprising discovery.
Shares: Unicorns, Children's fiction
The dark is rising
On his eleventh birthday Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of the Old Ones, destined to seek the six magical Signs that will enable the Old Ones to triumph over the evil forces of the Dark.
Shares: Good and evil, Brothers and sisters, Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction