18 books like Tanglewreck (Blackbirds)
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.
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The house on the strand
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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.
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The Crossroads of Time
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Red Shift
The lives of three young men in three different periods of British history converge and each influences the destiny of the others.
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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.
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Pebble in the Sky
*Pebble in the Sky* is Asimov's first full length novel. It begins with a retired tailor from the mid-20th Century, who is accidentally pitched forward into the future. By then, Earth has become radioactive and is a low-status part of a vast Galactic Empire. There is both a mystery and a power-struggle, and a lot of debate and human choices. The originality of the S.F. work is the choice of a…
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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…
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Puck of Pook's Hill
The children were at the Theatre, acting to Three Cows as much as they could remember of Midsummer Night's Dream. Their father had made them a small play out of the big Shakespeare one, and they had rehearsed it with him and with their mother till they could say it by heart. They began when Nick Bottom the weaver comes out of the bushes with a donkey's head on his shoulders, and finds Titania, …
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Time Cat
Jason and his magic cat Gareth travel through time to visit countries all over the world during different periods of history.
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The 13 Clocks
"There has never been anything like this before, and there will never be anything like this again…[Thurber] takes such delight in the words. It's like it's written by somebody who wants to infect you with his love of words. There are poems hidden in the text. There are places where it wanders into rhyme and out again. There are all of the invented words. The story itself is nonsense in the finest…
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The melody of death
Gilbert Standerton learns that he has been disinherited by his cantankerous uncle, and is forced to find a way to provide for his newly-wedded high-society wife. After quitting his appointment at the Foreign Office, he develops a new interest in the stock market, and takes an avid interest in the antics of a gang of safe-cracking burglars. His wife becomes concerned as he frequently begins…
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The box of delights, or When the wolves were running
Kay finds himself involved in a fantastic adventure when he becomes guardian of the mysterious Box of Delights.
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The Mystery of the Strange Messages
Mr. Goon, the policeman, can't understand it. Messages keep coming to him, popping up all over the place. But who is sending them? He thinks it is Fatty, playing tricks on him but this is the first the Five Find-Outers have heard about the messages. It all becomes a remarkable mystery, and one which the Five just have to solve.
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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…
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October the First Is Too Late
Professor Hoyle's sf adventure is a modern relative of Wells' The Time Machine. A transmission of solar beams plays havoc with time. England is in the 1960s but WWI is still raging in western Europe. Greece is in the golden age of Pericles, America some thousands of years in the future; while Russia and Asia are a glass-like plain, its surface fused together by the burnt-out sun of a far distant…
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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…
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The Magic Bed-Knob (Bedknobs and Broomsticks #1)
With the powers they acquire from a spinster who is studying to be a witch, three English children have a series of exciting and perilous adventures traveling on a flying bed that takes them to a London police station, a tropical island, and back in time to the seventeenth century.
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