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A Tale of Time City

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Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, Apr 12, 2012 - Juvenile Fiction - 334 pages
London, 1939. Vivian Smith thinks she is being evacuated to the countryside, because of the war. But she is being kidnapped - out of her own time. Her kidnappers are Jonathan and Sam, two boys her own age, from a place called Time City, designed especially to oversee history. But now history is going critical, and Jonathan and Sam are convinced that Time City's impending doom can only be averted by a twentieth-century girl named Vivian Smith. Too bad they have the wrong girl. . . .

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User Review  - Mary - Goodreads

Overall, I enjoyed the story very much. But I found the ending disappointing. All those loose threads tied up neatly in a bow with just a page or two of explanatory wrap-up? It felt instead as though ... Read full review

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User Review  - Jennifer - Goodreads

I wanted to read something by the author of Howl's Moving Castle, I've never read that book but the anime movie is one of my all time favorites. I really enjoyed this imaginative story and couldn't ... Read full review

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Diana Wynne Jones was the multiple award-winning author of many fantasy novels for children, teenagers, and adults. Her book Howl's Moving Castle was made into an Academy Award-nominated major animated feature by Hayao Miyazaki. She received the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. Married to the medievalist J. A. Burrow, with whom she had three sons, she lived for many years in Bristol, the setting for many of her books. Diana Wynne Jones passed away in March 2011, after a long illness.

Ursula K. Le Guin is the revered author of Tales from Earthsea.

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