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Oct

16

2020

Read Up, Kids: Middle Grade Chapter Book Recommendations from Portland’s Annie Bloom’s Books

From the recommendations of bookseller and kids’ author Rosanne Parry, here are three middle grade novels perfect for 9- to 14-year-olds: The Artifact Hunters by Janet Fox is like Harry Potter set in a magical school in Scotland. But, unlike Harry Potter, the characters travel through time in an attempt to solve real historical problems and keep the dangers of the …

Dec

16

2019

The Seventh Voyage: Star Diaries by Stanisław Lem

The Polish science fiction writing genius, gave us a short story par excellence with The Seventh Voyage. It’s one of many adventures of his indefatigable comedic protagonist Ijon Tichy. In this instance the innocent Ijon is merely cruising in his space ship when he gets caught in a time loop. As a result, past and …

Jun

2

2017

2

remarks

Let’s Do the Time Warp Again

I’ve had ideas for new posts rattling around in my brain for months, but, to be perfectly honest, I just haven’t had the mental or emotional energy to get the words down. It started with the election or, really, with the campaign. It was just so dispiriting and disheartening and now it feels like it’s …

Apr

3

2017

Girl from Everywhere

The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig

This is the beginning of a promising series with exotic historical settings and magic woven throughout. A lushly written time-traveling adventure with an imaginative magical twist, real heart and real heartbreak, and a major dash of swoon! For fans of the Kane Chronicles, The Madman’s Daughter, and The Scorpio Races. –Susan, children’s book buyer, The …

Sep

14

2016

Just One Damned Thing After Another

Just One Damned Thing After Another: The Chronicles of St. Mary’s Book One by Jodi Taylor

What begins as a post-graduate research job in academia becomes anything but ordinary when Madeleine “Max” Maxwell discovers that the historians at St. Mary’s Institute of Historical Research at England’s Thirsk University can travel through time. A history-lover’s dream becomes reality as Max and her colleagues jaunt through the ages, observing and recording historical events. …

Mar

14

2016

Little Free Library time travel

Daylight Saving Monday

The weekend was an hour shorter, and it’s darker in the morning this week than it was last week. Blast, Daylight Saving Time! But I found a silver lining in all the spring forward malarkey this year. A little free library near me had the most clever take on the loss of an hour: The steward of …

Jul

17

2014

The Glass Sentence

The Glass Sentence by S. E. Grove

Book #1 in The Mapmakers Trilogy. It is 1891 and the continents of the world have been flung far and wide by the Great Disruption. Not only that, but each continent has also landed itself in another time period! When Sophia’s renowned cartologist uncle Shadrack is kidnapped by strange men with grappling hooks and scars on …

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