Timesnatch
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Random House Children's UK
Published:4th Jan '07
Should be back in stock very soon
A gripping thriller about time travel - from a Carnegie Medal-winning author.
The physicist mother of Kizzy Rye and Fraser Rye has invented an amazing time machine that can travel back into the past, snatch a plant or animal now extinct and bring it back into the present.
It's a wonderful achievement, a real scientific breakthrough.
Once a creature is extinct, it's gone for ever, isn't it?
Not any more - as a butterfly from the past proves. The physicist mother of Kizzy Rye and Fraser Rye has invented an amazing time machine that can travel back into the past, snatch a plant or animal now extinct and bring it back into the present.
It's a wonderful achievement, a real scientific breakthrough. But the machine - 'Rye's Apparatus' - has a horrifying potential. Suddenly Kizzy and Fraser find themselves caught up in a terrifying spiral of events - events that lead finally to a monstrous demand from a sinister and violent organization...
WINNER OF THE 1995 EARTHWORM AWARD, 7-11 YEAR-OLD CATEGORY
Plots which grip the reader from the opening paragraph * The Sunday Times *
A fast-moving, readable thriller which will provoke considerable questioning and thought * Books for Keeps *
Spellbinding plot . . . an unstoppable pace . . . a stirring achievement, certain to absorb and provoke a wide audience * TES *
Robert Swindells writes the kinds of books that are so scary you're afraid to turn the page * Sunday Telegraph *
ISBN: 9780552555920
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 11mm
Weight: 127g
176 pages