Timespinners - Hardcover

Gray, Luli

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 061816412X ISBN 13: 9780618164127

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003

Synopsis

While trying to cope with their motherĘs comatose condition, twins Allie and Fig take a walk to a nearby natural history museum where they can look at the different displays from ages long ago, but when they magically and suddenly transport back in time, Allie and Fig begin to consider changing history in the hopes of changing what has happened to their mother.

About this title

About the Author:

Luli Gray belongs to a family for whom, she says, "reading and writing are as necessary as breathing." Born in Argentina, and for years a resident of New York City, she now lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Falcon and the Charles Street Witch is the sequel to her first novel, Falcon’s Egg which received rave reviews and was an ALA Notable Children’s Book for 1995 and a School Library Journal Best Book of 1996.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 4-7-Ten-year-old twins Allie and Fig Cadwallader-Newton are spending the summer with their Aunt Bijou while their archaeologist parents work in France. Suddenly, their mother is caught in a cave-in and flown home in a coma, which drags on through the summer and into the Christmas season. The twins go to school in New York City, occasionally amusing themselves at the Museum of Natural History. On one of their visits, they inadvertently spin themselves right into one of the dioramas in the Hall of European Mammals and find themselves transported back to France in 1913 on a collecting expedition. When they try to get home, things only get worse, as they spin themselves further back in time to Paleolithic France, caught between a mammoth herd and a tribe of Neanderthals. To their amazement, one blue-eyed boy speaks some English (explained later in the story), and is able to help them survive and eventually get home. Allie narrates the story but each chapter is followed by one of Fig's journal entries, complete with drawings and diagrams. The twins marvel at seeing mammoths and Neanderthals in the flesh, but also describe the dirt, discomfort, and sometimes disgusting food sources they are forced to accept. Willing suspension of disbelief is required to accept the brief explanation of the time-travel phenomena, but readers will empathize with the twins and their difficulties and triumphs, enjoy their firsthand look at Stone Age society, and share their surprise and delight at the final resolution.
Susan L. Rogers, Chestnut Hill Academy, PA
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About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 061816412X
• ISBN 13: 9780618164127
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 152