Time Travel
Suggestions from Mt. Lebanon Public Library, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
www.mtlebanonlibrary.org
Books about kids like you who travel through time.
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Something Upstairs: A Tale of Ghosts / Avi
The ghost of a slave boy rises out of a bloodstained floor to ask a New Hampshire boy to travel back in time with him and stop his murder. (grades 4-6)
The Trolley to Yesterday / John Bellairs
A professor and his friends try to save the city of Constantinople from the invading Turks in 1453. (grades 5-7)
Another Shore / Nancy Bond
Seventeen year old Lyn is transported back to an eighteenth century port city in Nova Scotia while working in a historical reconstruction of the same place 250 years later. (grades 6+)
A String in the Harp / Nancy Bond
In Wales, a boy finds an old harp-tuning key that carries him back in time to the days of the legendary sixth century bard Taliesin. (grades 5+)
An Angel for May / Melvin Burgess
A boy travels back in time to his village in World War II where he befriends a traumatized girl. (grades 4-6)
The Pit / Ann Cheetham
A contemporary London boy is thrown back in time to seventeenth century London in the middle of the plague epidemic. (grades 5-7)
Out of Time / Caroline Cooney
When the boy she meets on her travels back to the 1890s is committed to a mental asylum for revealing he has met a girl from the future, Annie must travel back to the past to help him. (grades 5+)
King of Shadows / Susan Cooper
A young actor suddenly finds himself back in 1599 performing in the original Globe theatre under the tutelage of William Shakespeare. (grades 5-7)
Stonewords / Pam Conrad
In her grandparent’s house, Zoe meets Zoe Louise, the ghost of a girl who lived in the same house a century ago and whose death in 1870 she tries to prevent. (grades 5-7)
Dark Shade / Jane Louise Curry
A 16 year old girl attempts to stop recently orphaned Kip from permanently going back in time to 1758 where he wants to live as an adopted Lenape Indian in the Western Pennsylvania forests. (grades 5-7)
Parsley Sage, Rosemary, & Time / Jane Louise Curry
After Rosemary picks a sprig of an herb named “time,” she and a cat called Parsley Sage find themselves in the midst of a witchhunt in the eighteenth century. (grades 5-6)
Mazemaker / Catherine Dexter
While playing in a maze, 12 year old Winnie is hurled back in time to a nineteenth century estate where she must remain until she can solve the maze and return to the present. (grades 5-7)
The Time Garden / Edward Eager
Four cousins discover some wild thyme which propels them on a series of adventures back and forth through time. (grades 4-6)
Charlotte Sometimes / Penelope Farmer
When she awakens on her second day at boarding school, a young girl finds she has gone back in time to 1918. (grades 5-7)
Somewhere Around the Corner / Jackie French
A young Australian girl is transported to a homeless camp during the Depression where she learns that the actions of only one person can make a difference in the world. (grades 5-8)
A Dig in Time / Peni R. Griffin
Twelve year old Nan and her brother find artifacts buried in their grandmother’s back yard that transport them to significant moments in their family’s history. (grades 5-7)
The Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story / Mary Downing Hahn
Finding an antique doll buried in an overgrown rose garden leads two friends to a ghostly turn-of-the-century world. (grades 4-6)
Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story / Mary Downing Hahn
After Andrew and Drew switch places in time so that Andrew’s life can be saved with modern medicine, Andrew decides that he likes Drew’s present-day life too much to switch back to his own time. (grades 4-6)
A Girl Called Boy / Belinda Hurmence
Blance Overtha Yancey, nicknamed Boy, wanders off during a picnic into her family’s past, where she becomes a slave like her ancestors. (grades 5-7)
Time Ghost / Welwyn Katz
In 2044 Sara and her grandmother travel to the unspoiled North Pole where they begin an adventure in time that helps them understand the fragile world they inhabit. (grades 5-8)
Many Waters / Madeleine L’Engle
Two 15 year-old twins are transported back to the Biblical time of Noah, as he prepares to build his ark. (grades 5-8)
The Cure / Sonia Levitin
A 16 year old boy living in 2407 is sent back to 1348 where he confronts not only the Black Plague but the anti-Semitism that was rampant in Europe at the time.b (grades 6+)
The Root Cellar / Janet Lunn
The root cellar of her aunt’s house is a link between Rose’s current world and the world of the U. S. Civil War where she finds friends who lived in her house a century earlier. (grades 5-7)
Bed-Knob and Broomstick / Mary Norton (j pb N)
Three children, a witch, her magic broomstick and a bed journey backwards and forwards in time on a number of exciting trips. (grades 4-6)
Playing Beatie Bow / Ruth Park
A lonely Australian girl is transported back in time to the nineteenth century where she is taken in by an immigrant family. (grades 6+)
The Transall Saga / Gary Paulsen
While backpacking in the desert, 13 year old Mark falls into a more primitive world where he must use his knowledge and skills to survive. (grades 5-7)
Tom’s Midnight Garden / Philippa Pearce
When the grandfather clock strikes thirteen, Tom finds himself in a garden of fifty years ago. (grades 5+)
Fog Magic / Julia L. Sauer (j pb S)
In Nova Scotia, a girl is transported through the fog to another time. (grades 4-7)
The Time Warp Trio Series / Jon Scieszka
A magical time travel book enables three friends to share hilarious adventures in the past and the future.
Titles include: Knights of the Kitchen Table; The Not-So-Jolly Roger; Your Mother Was a Neanderthal and Tut Tut. (grades 3-5)
Cat in the Mirror / Mary Stolz
When she receives a bump on the head, Erin is sent back 3000 years to ancient Egypt in the days of the pharaohs. (gardes 5-7)
The Devil’s Arithmetic / Jane Yolen
During a Passover seder, Hannah travels back in time from her grandparent’s home in New Rochelle, New York to a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland. (grades 5+)
Look for these and other great books at
The Children’s Library
Mt. Lebanon Public Library
16 Castle Shannon Blvd.
Pittsburgh, PA 15228
412/531-1913 10/01
www.mtlebanonlibrary.org
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