Central Kansas Library System

A long but well-peopled fantasy with a strong environmental message. When Kate, 13, tries to help stop a group of unemployed Oregon loggers from cutting a unique stand of redwoods, she's cast back five centuries and propelled into the struggle against Gashra, a megalomaniac volcano creature with a very real scorched earth policy.'' The strongest feature of this novel is not the wandering, predictable plot but the colorful cast, especially the nonhumans-...

While on a field trip to New York's Museum of Natural History, Joe, Sam, and Fred travel one hundred years into the future, where they encounter robots, anti-gravity disks, and their own grandchildren.

"As far as twelve-year-old McKinley O'Dair is concerned, the best thing about living in Gap Bend, Pennsylvania, is the Time Hop--the giant party the town throws every June to celebrate a single year in history. That one day is enough to make the few things that aren't so fantastic about McKinley's life--like her crabby homeroom teacher or her super-scheduled father--worth suffering through. And when McKinley learns that this year's theme is 1993,...

'First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc., 1992'--T.p. verso.

A boy bounces his soccer ball through the window of an empty theater at the beginning of this wordless picture book. When he follows the ball, he meets Shakespeare inside. Shakespeare chases the boy out into 17th century London.

The city needs heroes. Darkness has settled over New York City as Shredder and his evil Foot Clan have an iron grip on everything from the police to the politicians. The future is grim until four unlikely outcast brothers rise from the sewers and discover their destiny as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The Turtles must work with fearless reporter April O'Neil and her wise-cracking cameraman Vern Fenwick to save the city and unravel Shredder's diabolical...

Our second time-traveling adventure was in ancient Egypt. We were there to discover how the Great Pyramid of Giza was built. But when we got there, we were arrested by the Grand Vizier and taken to see the pharaoh - who had us thrown in the dungeon! Would we be able to escape, or would we be fed to the crocodiles?

Set ten years in the future, Lou, who has become the "father of the Internet," is shot by an unknown assailant, Jacob and Nick fire up the time machine again to save their friend.

What if a person could change everything they thought was not as they hoped in life? That's what's offered to Stewart when he's at his lowest point. He could have been the football hero, the TV star, the investment king, and the perfect dad and husband. Faced with losing his father's toy factory to a greedy business mogul, Stewart discovers a ticket for a special one-night-only train ride with a mysterious conductor to visit his past, present, and...

April and Toad must find one last puzzle piece before they go home. This time, the magical book send the three friends to a pirate ship off the coast of South Carolina. Can they defeat a gang of nasty pirates and complete their most dangerous mission yet? Or will they be stuck in history forever?