Man can move easily enough in the three dimensions of space - why not the fourth: Time? An intriguing after-dinner conversation takes an unexpected turn when the host produces a small machine, which promptly disappears into thin air. It has been sent into the future, he says. Or maybe the past. As his skeptical guests try to fathom what they have seen, the host unveils a full-size machine, nearing completion. At a similar gathering one week later...

"An intrepid adventurer, known simply as the Time Traveler, meets his friends for dinner one night. During the conversation, he baffles them with his wild ideas about moving forward or backward in time. His claims are met with disbelief. Even when he proves his theory with a real-life experiment, his associates simply claim that he is a trickster--a magician. A week later, he enthralls his acquaintances yet again. He tells a story so unbelievable...

Liam Chapman's books report on Thomas Edison is due tomorrow, and he hasn't even started reading yet. But don't worry! He's got a plan. You see, Liam just bought a garage sale time machine for three bucks. Sure, it's labeled "World's Worst Time Machine," but that seem dramatic. It is NOT dramatic. Not even a little bit. To keep this wheezing cardboard death machine from ruining his life, Liam will need help from a mad scientist, the wrong Thomas Edison,...

Fifth-grader Alex Trumble builds a "dingus"--a time machine--when his brother Stephen is kidnapped by dangerous, evil time-travelers, to get back to the past and into the future to save his family from disaster.

"Unleash the magic of math with Danica McKellar, her friends Mr. Mouse and Ms. Squirrel, and the exciting contraption the Times Machine!"--

In the Invisible man, a scientist makes himself invisible, but loses control of the experiment. In the Island of Dr. Moreau, the survivor of a shipwreck finds himself washed ashore on an island with some very peculiar inhabitants.