It's About Time: Time-travel Books for Older Readers

Alexander

Time Cat (206pgs.)

A boy named Jason has nine historical adventures with the help of Gareth, his talking, time-traveling cat.

Anderson

The Druid's Gift (211pgs.)

Given the gift of seeing the future, a young girl, living on the remote island of Hirta at the time of the Druids, travels forward in time and experiences some of the important events that shape the history of her island home.

Anderson

The Ghost Inside the Monitor (119pgs.)

Eleven-year-old Sarah gets pulled through a computer into another girl's time period a century back.

Avi

Something Upstairs (120 pgs.)

Mist begins to rise from a dark stain on the attic floor. As Kenny watches, it takes the form of a boy-a slave from earlier days with an urgent request for help. Suddenly, Kenny finds himself living in the early 1800s trying to prevent a murder.

Barber

The Ghosts (190 pgs.)

It was a dark and stormy night when Lucy and Tom first met the mysterious Mr. Blunden. Nothing was ever the same again.

Beckman

Crusade in Jeans (307pgs.)

A young boy who volunteers to travel through time to the Middle Ages arrives during the Children's Crusade and is caught in its momentum.

Bellairs

Trolley To Yesterday (183pgs.)

Johnny Dixon and Professor Childermass discover a trolley which transports them back to Constantinople in 1453 as the Turks are invading the Byzantine Empire.

Bond

A String in the Harp (pgs.)

This book tells the story of what happens to three American children, unwillingly transplanted to Wales for one year, when one of them finds an ancient harp-tuning key that takes him back to the time of the great sixth-century bard Taliesin.

Cameron

Court of the Stone Children (191 pgs.)

Nina, lonely and adrift in San Francisco, plays her imaginary game in the museum with the court of the stone children. There she meets Dominique, a strange and lovely girl, who turns out to be from long ago. The museum building was then a chateau in France and Napoleon was Emperor.

Christopher

Fireball (148pgs.)

Two boys are drawn by a fireball into a society, parallel to 20th-century England, which has many of the characteristics of Roman Britain.

Conrad

Stonewords: A Ghost Story (130 pgs.)

Zoe Louise is Zoe's best friend but she is also the ghost of a young girl who died in the past. Now Zoe must travel back in time to find out how Zoe Louise died and save her before it actually happens!

Cooper

King of Shadows (186pgs.)

While in London as part of an all-boy acting company preparing to perform in a replica of the famous Globe Theatre, Nat Field suddenly finds himself transported back to 1599 and performing in the original theater under the tutelage of Shakespeare himself.

Cresswell

Time Out (74pgs.)

Twelve-year-old Tweeny and her parents, servants in a London house in 1887, use a book of magic spells to travel forward in time 100 years and find the England of 1987 to be an astonishing place.

Cresswell

Moondial (208 pgs.)

One summer when Minty Kane stays with her Aunt, strange things begin to happen. She can hear the voices of two ghostly children begging her to set them free. When a mysterious stone sundial enables Minty to travel back through time and meet the children, she realizes that she must go through dark and dangerous places to find the key that will free them.

Curry

Dark Shade (168pgs.)

Sixteen-year-old Maggie attempts to save recently orphaned Kip from permanently going back in time to 1758 as an adopted Lenape in the primeval forests of western Pennsylvania.

Downer

Hatching Magic (242pgs.)

When a thirteenth-century wizard confronts twenty-first century Boston while seeking his pet dragon, he is followed by a rival wizard and a very unhappy demon, but eleven-year-old Theodora Oglethorpe may hold the secret to setting everything right.

Davies

Conrad's War (120 pgs.)

Conrad loves anything to do with guns or war-so much so that he decides to build a tank. The tank transports him into active duty during World War II and he is very excited. But when Conrad is taken prisoner by the Germans, his exciting war becomes terrifying.

Dexter

Mazemaker (202 pgs.)

Winnie is good at mazes and when she finds one spray painted on the asphalt of a deserted playground, she follows it. Somewhere in the middle, she is hurled back to a 19th century estate that once stood where her city neighborhood is now. To find her way back, she must find the mysterious painter of the maze.

Enzensberger

Lost in Time (344pgs.)

A German teenager begins to lose his identity and any hope of returning to the present when his time-traveling journeys take him further and further into the past.

Etchemendy

The Power of Un (148pgs.)

When he is given a device that will allow him to “undo” what has happened in the past, Gib Finney is not sure what event from the worst day in his life he should change in order to keep his sister from being hit by a truck.

Greer

Max, and Me and the Wild West (138pgs.)

Steve and his friend Max use their time machine to return to the richest, roughest boom town in the old Wild West.

Gutman

Babe & Me (161pgs.)

A baseball card adventure in which Joe and his father have the opportunity to find out whether Babe Ruth really did call his shot back in 1932 against the Chicago Cubs.

Jackie & Me is another baseball time travel.

Hahn

The Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story (128 pgs.)

An Antique doll hidden in an overgrown garden, a “ghost cat”, and a dying girl from another century combine to help Ashley and Kristi begin a friendship with Ashley's elderly landlady.

Jones

A Tale of Time City (278pgs.)

In 1939 an eleven-year-old London girl is kidnapped to Time City, a place existing outside the stream of time and manipulating the history of humanity, where she finds the inhabitants facing their worst hour of crisis.

Kehret

The Blizzard Disaster (137pgs.)

Warren and Betsy teleport themselves in time to learn about the Armistice Day Blizzard of 1940, and must decide to either leave while they can or stay to save a young girl from the blizzard.

The Volcano Disaster is another choice.

Langton

The Time Bike (176pgs.)

Eddy receives a mysterious gift from India, an old-fashioned bike that transports its rider through time.

L'Engle

A Swiftly Tilting Planet (278 pgs.)

In this continuing saga of the Wallace family (A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door), Charles Wallace takes a dangerous journey through time in order to stop the dictator Madog Branzillo from destroying the world.

Lindbergh

The Prisoner of Pineapple Place (178 pgs.)

Everything had been exactly the same on Pineapple Place for the last 50 years. It's an entire magical street that moves invisibly through time and space. The adults think it's wonderful never to grow any older, but Jeremiah is bored with being nine years old. He longs for change and adventure.

Lunn

The Root Cellar (229 pgs.)

Disappointed and angry at having to move from New York City to a run-down farm in Ontario, Canada after her grandmother's death, Rose discovers the door to a long-forgotten root cellar and finds herself back in the 1860's. She learns some important lessons about herself and the Canadian involvement in the American Civil War.

Lytle

Three Rivers Crossing (161pgs.)

After a fishing accident, seventh-grader Walker Morrison finds himself transported back in time to the 19th century of his village and there becomes friends with the Taylor children, his ancestors, for whom he risks his life.

McAllister

Ghost at the Window (119pgs.)

Ewan and his parents love the isolated Scottish house they have moved to, but it slips in and out of different times, and Ewan finds he must help a young girl trapped by these time shifts and stuck between life and death.

McKean

The Secret of the Seven Willows (151pgs.)

To prevent the selling of their ancestral home, Martha and Tad use the power of a magical ring to travel back in time.

Nesbit

The Story of the Amulet (270 pgs.)

With the help of the Sand Fairy, four young children are able to travel through time to Ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Rome.

Ormondroyd

Time at the Top (176 pgs.)

One wet and windy March Wednesday, Susan Shaw's life is suddenly touched by magic. Did it really happen or was it a dream?

Park

Playing Beatie Bow (196 pgs.)

Lonely and frustrated with the way her life is going, Abigail follows a scruffy little girl down a staircase and back into Sydney, Australia in the 1880's where she finds a place in the home and hearts of the Bow family.

Pearce

Tom's Midnight Garden (229 pgs.)

Tom's dull holiday in the country is suddenly changed when the clock strikes 13 and he discovers that he can travel back in time.

Peck

Voices After Midnight (181 pgs.)

As Heidi, Chad, and Luke begin exploring the old house their family has rented, they discover that it has secrets. Late at night they hear voices crying for help and learn that they must travel back to the winter of 1888 and face unknown dangers to find the voices and rescue them.

Quindlen

Happily Ever After (43pgs.)

When a girl who loves to read fairy tales is transported back to Medieval times, she finds that the life of a princess in a castle is less fun than she imagined.

Stewart

If That Breathes Fire, We're Toast! (118pgs.)

When 11-year-old Rick and his mother move from San Diego to Tucson he is not too happy about the change, but when they get a fire-breathing, time-traveling dragon to replace their broken furnace, his new life starts to get more interesting.

Thomas

The Princess in the Pigpen (130pgs.)

Elizabeth, a duke's daughter sick with fever, travels through time from Elizabethan England to a farm in modern Iowa, where she has difficulty convincing anyone of the truth of her story.

Weldrick

Time Sweep (157 pgs.)

The unusual brass bed in Laurie's new room has the ability to take him to another time and place. One night Laurie awakens in London, the year is 1862, and there is a young stranger waiting to take him on an adventure.

Wiseman

Jeremy Visick (170 pgs.)

The churchyard near his home seems to have a strange hold on Matthew Clemens particularly the gravestone of Reuben Visick that reads: “And To Jeremy Visick, His Son, Age 12, Whose Body Still Lies Buried in Wheal Maid.” What is Wheal Maid and what secrets does it hold for Matthew?

Woodruff

The Disappearing Bike Shop (169pgs.)

Fifth graders Freckle and Tyler meet an unusual bicycle salesman and inventor who turns out to be Leonardo da Vinci, traveling through time.

Woodruff

The Orphan of Ellis Island (174pgs.)

During a school trip to Ellis Island, Dominick, a 10-year-old foster child, travels back in time to 1908 Italy and accompanies two young emigrants to America.

Yolen, Jane

The Devil's Arithmetic (170 pgs.)

Hannah doesn't understand the traditions of her Jewish religion. She resents having to spend all the Jewish holidays with her grandparents whom she feels are too tied to the past. But one fateful Passover, Hannah is transported to a tiny Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland where everyone seems to think she's someone named Chaya. Time goes on and the memories of her real life and home slowly fade as she tries to stay alive. Will she live to tell her story?

OTHER BOOKS ABOUT TIME TRAVEL:

Boston, Lucy M. Stones of Green Knowe

Cresswell, Helen Secret World of Polly Flint

Eager, Edward Time Garden

Fleischman, Sid The 13th Floor

Griffin, Peni R. Switching Well

Gutman, Dan The Edison Mystery

Hahn, Mary Downing Time for Andrew

Lindbergh, Anne Nick of Time

Lyon, George Ella Here and Then

MacGrory, Yvonne Secret of the Ruby Ring

Paulsen, Gary Culpepper's Cannon

Reiss, Kathryn Time Windows

Scieszka, Jon Time Warp Trio (series)

Stine, R. L. Tick, Tock, You're Dead

Voigt, Cynthia Building Blocks