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The Reluctant Time Traveller

Janis Mackay

£5.99

Also available as: eBook

Range: Kelpies Paperback 240 pages 198 x 130 mm ISBN: 9781782501114 Publication date: 21st August 2014
Genre: Adventure and Thriller Themes: First World War, Time Travel Ideal for ages: 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Time Traveller series

When Agnes suggested time travel, I should’ve said ‘N. O! No.’

This was her plan: travel to 1914, find out about the First World War and save our den.

I should have said, ‘time travel is a totally dangerous, mad idea.’ I mean, what if we’d gotten it wrong and ended up in some gladiator ring, or trampled by dinosaurs!?

Now I’m stuck somewhere dark and creepy. No sign of Agnes. Where am I? More to the point, when am I?

The time-twisting sequel to The Accidental Time Traveller.

Reviews

'Janis again weaves a history lesson unobtrusively into an exciting story and it's a topical theme as the children travel back to 1914 and the outbreak of the first world war... Read both books, because they're worth it!'
-- Lothian Life

'So real that kid readers will be wishing they could make the journey right alongside them.'
-- Foreward Reviews

Reluctant Time Traveller

Author

Janis Mackay was born and grew up in Edinburgh, but moved to London to study journalism. She has an MA in Creative Writing and has held writer-in-residence posts in both Caithness and Sutherland. She currently lives in Edinburgh, where she teaches creative writing and works…

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