The Trolley to Yesterday (A Bantam-Skylark Book) - Softcover

Bellairs, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553157957 ISBN 13: 9780553157956

Publisher: Bantam Books, 1990

Synopsis

Why is Professor Childermass acting so strange?  Johnny Dixon and his friend Fergie decide to sneak  over to the professor's house to investigate. What  they find is wilder than anything they could have  imagined, for the professor leads them through a  secret cellar door and onto a rickety old trolley.  It's a time machine to yesterdays, and soon Johnny  and Fergie are off on the ride of their lives: to  Constantinople during the Turkish invasion of  1453!
As the Byzantine Empire  prepares for battle, the professor decides to try to save  the people hiding in the Church of the Holy  Wisdom. But Johnny and Fergie. Desperate to stop him,  have hitched a ride, recklessly unaware that they  risk their lives--and risk being lost in the past...forever!

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About the Author

John Anthony Bellairs (1938 1991) is an award-winning American author, perhaps best known for his fantasy novel The Face in the Frost. He is also the author of many gothic mystery novels for children and young adults, including The House with a Clock in its Walls (which received both the New York Times Outstanding Book of Award and the American Library Association Children's Books of International Interest Award), The Lamp from the Warlock’s Tomb (which won the Edgar Allen Poe Award), and The Specter from the Magician’s Museum (which won the New York Public Library "Best Books for the Teen Age" Award.
 

From Publishers Weekly

Johnny, Fergie and Professor Childermass leave their native New England far behind when they ride an old trolley back in time to 15th-century Constantinople. The Professor dreams of saving the ancient city's citizens from slaughter at the hands of the Turks. Johnny and Fergie are more concerned with simply keeping their crotchety old friend out of trouble. Among the companions' adventures are an encounter with the ghosts of long-dead Crusaders, the opportunity to outwit a would-be Inquisitor, a run-in with another 20th-century time-traveler and the chance to explore Constantinople's supernaturally guarded reservoir. Finally, with the help of Brewster, a sarcastic, talkative statue who claims to be a god of Egypt, Professor Childermass does what he can to change the course of history. Though some readers may find themselves homesick for the eccentric New England setting of Johnny's earlier adventures, Bellairs's vision of Constantinople is as spooky as it is exotic. Crackling dialogue adds extra zip to the companions' already spine-tingling adventures. Ages 10-up.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0553157957
• ISBN 13: 9780553157956
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 183