When Rosemary receives ten mysterious packages from her grandmother on her tenth birthday, she is excited. She is so excited that she doesn't heed her grandmother's warning to wait to open the last package, and she is whisked back in time to Germany in 1870. Will she ever make it home? What will happen when she meets her great-great-great grandmother Rosemarie as a girl her own age? Will she be able to decode a mysterious postcard Rosemarie receives?

Reviewed by: emc

Date read: 2/26/2010

ISBN-10: 1890817554

ISBN-13: 9781890817558

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When the twins, Lenny and Elizabeth, visit their grandmother while their parents take a trip to Paris, they're in for a surprise! Their grandmother has the power to travel through time with her magic hat, and the twins choose to meet their great-great-great-great-grandmother Elizabeth in 1843, while she was moving west on the Oregon Trail. So they join their relatives from long ago on a great journey in a covered wagon, seeing many things for the first time, like buffalo and the Soda Springs. Read this picture-filled book to find out about the rest of their trip and how it ended!

Similar books: Thanksgiving on Plymouth Plantation by Diane Stanley

Reviewed by: emc

Date read: 4/9/2010

ISBN-10: 0060270659

ISBN-13: 9780060270650

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When Alex's parents have the bright idea to open an inn in the middle of nowhere, eight-year-old Alex knows that boredom is in his future. Then, he sees the house, and he senses that it holds secrets. When he meets the inn's first guest, an oddly dressed man, and finds a mysterious postcard, he sets off to explore. Along with his two sisters, Alex discovers a hidden entrance into the house's tower and a spyglass that sends him back in time. This book is the first in the Time Spies series. The book also includes instructions for making invisible ink and a code for sending secret messages.

Reviewed by: emc

Date read: 1/13/2010

ISBN-10: 0786940271

ISBN-13: 9780786940271

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In the book, Found, which begins the time travel series, Jonah and his best friend Chip learn that, not only were they adoptees, but that they are also famous missing children from history, kidnapped from their original time period. In this next book in the series, Jonah, Chip and Katherine, Jonah's adopted sister, are sent back to Chip's original time and place: fifteenth-century England. There they learn that Chip was one of the missing York princes, and heir to the English throne, Edward V. He and his brother were presumed to have been murdered by their uncle, so that he could inherit the throne to become Richard III. Jonah and Katherine are assured that, if they can 'fix time,' they will be allowed to take Chip back home. In other words, they need to find out what happened when Chip disappeared and make sure events occur as they were supposed to have happened. While trapped in the fifteenth century, the kids become embroiled in the final battles of the War of the Roses, the dynastic wars over which side of the Plantagenet family will rule. Can Jonah and Katherine 'fix time' before Edward/Chip is killed? This is also available as a riveting audio book.

Reviewed by: vverscaj

Date read: 9/17/2010

ISBN-10: 1416954228

ISBN-13: 9781416954224

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Any young person who has visited the Art Institute of Chicago has seen the Thorne Rooms, 68 miniature rooms depicting European and American life from the 1400s to the 1930s. The rooms were conceived and designed by Mrs. James Ward Thorne, who collected many of the tiny pieces and commissioned several others from talented craftsmen: tiny books, their pages covered in tinier script, clothes, dishes, paintings, and more. Sixth-grade friends Ruthie and Jack find a key on a field trip, and then discover that the key enables them to shrink, small enough to walk around inside the Thorne Rooms! Which room would you most like to visit? How did a pink plastic barrette find it's way into a Colonial American cupboard? A gripping mystery full of stories, secrets, close escapes, and adventure.

Similar authors: Betty Ren Wright, Mary Downing Hahn

Similar books: The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright; The Doll in The Garden by Mary Downing Hahn

Reviewed by: donna

Date read: 7/27/2010

ISBN-10: 0375957103

ISBN-13: 9780375957109

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