“The Time Travelers,” by Linda Buckley-Archer

“The Time Travelers,” by Linda Buckley-Archer is the first book in a series of time traveling adventures. This book was formerly known as “Gideon the Cutpurse.”

When an antigravity experiment goes bad and Peter Schock and Kate Dyer are mysteriously thrown into eighteenth-century London, it is the start of an journey that will take the two young people into dangerous situations that their modern day lives have not prepared them for.

No sooner do the two children arrive in the past than their time travel machine is stolen by an infamous eighteenth century villain who goes by the name Tar Man. Read the rest »

“Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac,” by Gabrielle Zevin

“Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac,” by Gabrielle Zevin is a wonderful novel about a girl’s reaction to amnesia.

When Naomi wakes up in an ambulance on her way to the hospital she can’t remember how she got there. But unfortunately that’s not all that she has forgotten. Naomi can’t remember her boyfriend, or why she fell in love with him in the first place. She can’t remember her parent’s divorce, nor the fact that her mom is now remarried and her father has a finance. Four whole years of Naomi’s life are gone, and she is left frustrated, trying to live up to the expectations of other people that she now doesn’t even know anymore. Read the rest »