Dorso Clayman opened his locker door and a dead body, a very smelly and partially dissected dead body, was hanging inside. Thirty seconds later, it was gone, with only the stink remaining. Someone has been playing jokes on seventh grader Dorso and his friend, Frank, and the jokes are getting more serious. Somehow people from the past are interacting with Dorso and dragging him and Frank back into the past in ever more dangerous situations. Will Dorso and Frank be able to stop these 'Time Hackers' before they destroy the world?

Reviewed by: hap

Date read: 10/1/2010

ISBN-10: 0385908962

ISBN-13: 9780385908962

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Grandma likes to entertain her grandchildren, twins Lenny and Liz, with time-traveling adventures. The Fourth of July is fast approaching so they will be joining the Boston Tea Party. Grandma has a magic hat and many costumes to help the twins get a firsthand look at colonial life with Ben Reed and his family. Differences in the clothes worn, the use of plumbing, the modes of transportation and how information was communicated are some of the fine points of living in colonial times. Six and seven-year-olds will enjoy having this piece of history read to them and eight-year-olds will be able to read it themselves. The author blends humor and historical detail in this second book of the Time-Traveling Twins series.

Reviewed by: cj

Date read: 9/13/2010

ISBN-10: 0060270675

ISBN-13: 9780060270674

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An orphaned brother and sister discover that they can travel through time by thinking of the place and date where they want to go. They meet up with friends and get themselves into trouble.

Reviewed by: St. Charles Reader

Date read: 11/12/2009

ISBN-10: 0671732749

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Their magic tree house takes Annie and Jack to Pompeii, just as Vesuvius is about to erupt, where they must find a Roman scroll, before everything is covered with burning ash.

Similar books: Ancient Rome and Pompeii: A Nonfiction Companion to Vacation under the Volcano by Mary Pope Osborne

Reviewed by: sc

Date read: 3/27/2009

ISBN-10: 0679890505

ISBN-13: 9780679890508

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Chad's family travels to New York to stay in an old house, and Chad starts to hear strange things at night: voices from another time. Soon, he and his brother start slipping back in time to 1887 and 1888. They might be able to save some lives if they can figure out what happened there so long ago...before it's too late.

Reviewed by: emc

Date read: 5/14/2010

ISBN-10: 0440403782

ISBN-13: 9780440403784

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