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.
Shares: Time, Space and time, Time Travel, Children's fiction
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…
Shares: Clocks and watches, Time, Children's literature, 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
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, 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, Adventure, Children's 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
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, …
Shares: Space and time, England, Adventure, Children's 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, 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, Time Travel, England, Children's fiction
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.
Shares: Space and time, England, Children's fiction
Twister on Tuesday
When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn," they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado.
Shares: Tornadoes, 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 children of Green Knowe
Tolly comes to live with his great-grandmother at the ancient house of Green Knowe and becomes friends with three children who lived there in the seventeenth century.
Shares: Space and time, Time Travel, England, Children's fiction
Tom's Midnight Garden
Daytime life for Tom is dull, but each night he participates in the lives of the former inhabitants of the old house in which he is spending an enforced vacation.
Shares: Children's literature, Space and time, Adventure, 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, Children's fiction
Dream days
Kenneth Grahame's unjustly neglected collections of vignettes, reminiscences, and inventions capture the ingenuities of a family of children--three boys and two girls--who live magnanimous lives nourished by the secret expeditions and private games they share. Written in the last few years of the 19th century, as Grahame looked back fondly at his own childhood, these sketches of growing up are…
Shares: Children's literature, England, Adventure, Children's fiction
Octavo viaje al reino de la fantasía
I, Geronimo Stilton, was amazed to find myself called back to the Kingdom of Fantasy for another adventure. Blossom, Queen of the Fairies, needed my help -- time itself was under threat!
Something evil was making the hands of the magical Tick Tock Timepiece spin faster and faster. It was causing Blossom to age at an alarming rate . . . and if she perished, so would the entire Kingdom of Fantasy!…
Shares: Time, Adventure, Children's fiction
Warriors of Camlann
Armed with their respective powers as warrior and magician, Dan and Ursula attempt to return to their own time through the Veil but instead find themselves in the turbulent era of the early Middle Ages in the service of Artorius Ursus, War Duke of Britain.
Shares: Space and time, Time Travel, Children's fiction