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Author
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the question, "What are they doing right at this moment on the other side of the world?" this book focuses on natural and human events happening all over the world in the same second. Talking about the world and how it's so different in places but also so similar and shared, so incredible and surprising, the books takes us to New York, Chicago, Mexico, Portugal, Angola, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Hungry, Brazil, and South Africa, among others....
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 5
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"An old magic resurfaces in twelve-year-old Olive's house, and in order to save herself, those she loves, and all of Elsewhere, she must uncover the complex history of this eerie, painted world, its magical origins, and its creator"--
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 3
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
After plummeting through a hole in her backyard and finding herself once again in the room of mysterious jars, eleven-year-old Olive unwittingly releases two of Elsewhere's biggest, most cunning, most dangerous forces.
Author
Series
13th reality volume 4
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When an all-consuming void from the Fourth Dimension opens up, unleashing monsters throughout the Realities, Mister George has one last weapon at his disposal--the mysterious and powerful Karma button, which might be even more dangerous than anyone imagined.
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 3
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The youngest of the Murry children must travel through time and space in a battle against an evil dictator who would destroy the entire universe.
8) Shadowland
Author
Series
Brotherhood of the Conch volume 3
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A search to find the magical conch shell and restore it to its proper home deep in the Himalayas sends Anand and Nisha to the bleak futuristic city of Coal, where the air and water are polluted and the upper classes live in luxury under hermetically sealed domes.
9) The shadows
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 1
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Description
When eleven-year-old Olive and her distracted parents move into an old Victorian mansion, Olive finds herself ensnared in a dark plan involving some mysterious paintings, a trapped and angry nine-year-old boy, and three talking cats.
Author
Series
13th reality volume 2
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
After being kidnapped by Mr. Chu, Atticus "Tick" Higginbottom and his friends Paul and Sofia must survive a series of tests in several different Realities.
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 5
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Polly's stay with her grandparents in Connecticut becomes an extraordinary experience as she encounters old friends and mysterious strangers and finds herself traveling back in time to play a crucial role in a prehistoric confrontation.
12) The starspun web
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Tess de Sousa leaves Miss Ackerbee's orphanage to live with her new guardian in Roedeer Lodge, taking with her a fondness for scientific experimentation, a pet tarantula named Violet, and a device that allows her to travel to parallel universes.
Author
Series
Abarat volume 3
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown, Minnesota, is the only person who can stop the evil Mater Motley who, now that the hour of midnight has come, is prepared to unleash the end of the world.
14) Ghost letters
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
While exploring the area around his grandfather's home Gil discovers a bottle that carries messages into the past, finds a genie in a letter, and three letters that were never delivered but would have changed the course of history.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Papa Jo loves to slow down and savor his day, but the excitable young Charlie may need some convincing Charlie's grandfather, Papa Jo, uses an hourglass to remind himself that every moment is precious. When Charlie asks Papa Jo what his hourglass is for, she doesn't really understand his answer. To teach Charlie the importance of taking her time and savoring her day, the pair spend their day at a leisurely pace, transforming every ordinary day into...
16) Darien's rise
Author
Series
Passages volume 1
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Kyle and his sister Anna find themselves in an alternate world in which they have special powers to help carry out the will of the Unseen One.
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 4
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"When something crucial goes missing, eleven-year-old Olive and her friends must decide how to get it back--put their faith in a strange and dangerous magic, their odd new neighbors, or someone more uncertain and terrifying than both"--
Author
Series
Library jumpers novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Being a Sentinel isn't all fairytales and secret gardens. Sure, jumping through books into the world's most beautiful libraries to protect humans from mystical creatures is awesome. No one knows that better than Gia Kearns, but she could do without the part where people are always trying to kill her. Oh, and the fact that Pop and her had to move away from her friends and life as she knew it. And if that isn't enough, her boyfriend, Arik, is acting...
Author
Series
Ninja librarians volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Dorrie and her brother Marcus accidently open a portal to Petrarch's Library, where they discover a secret society of warrior librarians who travel in time, protecting the world's greatest thinkers from torture and death for sharing knowledge and ideas.
20) Wakers
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Laz Hayerian wakes up on an abandoned Earth to discover that he and his companion Ivy Downey are clones, and they must work together--combining their talents to sense and step into and out of timestreams--to save humanity from imminent extinction.
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