A Tale of Time City
Diana Wynne Jones
336 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0064473511
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Language: English
Publish: February 1, 2002
AdventureChildrensFantasyFictionMiddle GradeScience FictionScience Fiction FantasyTime TravelYoung AdultYoung Adult Fantasy
Time City — built far in the future on a patch of space outside time — holds the formidable task of overseeing history, yet it’s starting to decay, crumble …. What does that say for the future of the world … for the past … for the present? Two Time City boys, determined to save it all, think they have the answer in Vivian Smith, a young Twenty Century girl whom they pluck from a British train station at the start of World War II. But not only have they broken every rule in the book by traveling back in time — they have the wrong person! Unable to return safely, Vivian’s only choice is to help the boys restore Time City or risk being stuck outside time forever…