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Series
Pub. Date
2006
Summary
"Pack your skateboard and your Samsonite, as Time machine III embarks on a global journey to seek out the wildest street competition across America and Europe. From Barcelona to Bristol then back stateside, you'll tour with record-holders and champion skateboarders in search of the grittiest action on the worldwide pro circuit."--Container.
Author
Lexile Measure
1010L
Summary
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...
Pub. Date
c2002
Summary
Desperate to alter the course of time, a visionary scientist invents a revolutionary machine that propels him 800,000 years into the future. There he discovers that humans have evolved into two groups: the hunters and the hunted. Now he must fight to save himself, and all of mankind, in a final, desperate battle.
Author
Series
Max Meow volume 4
Pub. Date
2022
Summary
"Max Meow and Mindy the Scientist go back in time in a time machine shaped like a taco."--
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Summary
"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...
Author
Series
World's worst time machine volume 1
Pub. Date
[2023]
Summary
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,...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Summary
The outrageous laughs bubble up when four friends share a crazy night of drinking in a ski resort hot tub, only to wake up with serious hangovers in 1986; back when girls wore leg warmers, guys watched 'Red Dawn' and Michael Jackson was black! Now, nice-guy Adam, party animal Lou, married man Nick, and mega-nerd Jacob must relive a wild night of sex, drugs and rock-n-roll and try to change their future, forever!
Author
Summary
Marcus is in trouble. He didn't think his friend Laurence would actually believe him when he said that his super brainy aunt built the very first time machine. He only made up the story in a spur-of-the-moment bid to win a silly argument! Now how on earth will he make the story come true?
11) Oh no! Not again!: (or how I built a time machine to save history) (or at least my history grade)
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Summary
When she does not get a perfect score on her history test, a young girl builds a time machine to remedy the situation.
Author
Series
Summary
Grad-school dropout Matt Fuller accidentally creates a time machine and sends himself into the near future, where he discovers he is a murder suspect, prompting him to once again travel through time in search for a safe place, despite the fact that no place seems to be perfectly safe for Matt.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile Measure
440L
Summary
Two very hungry dinosaurs discover a time machine and are instantly transported to America in 2018, where they are delighted to find themselves surrounded by food (including pizza and doughnuts), but soon less excited to find themselves surrounded by policemen with guns--so they escape to the time machine, not knowing where it will take them next.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Summary
People are happy to share puzzles and riddles with Adam "Einstein" Anderson. Sometimes they need his help and sometimes they are trying to outsmart him. In any case, he enjoys the challenge-and is always ready with some awful jokes that make people groan. Margaret, Einstein's best friend, tries harder than anyone to fool him. She shows Einstein some footprints in the mud and says a big, growling creature scared her the other night. Could Margaret...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Summary
"In How to Build a Time Machine, Brian Clegg provides an understanding of what time is and how it can be manipulated. He explores the remarkable possibilities of real time travel that emerge from quantum entanglement, superluminal speeds, neutron star cylinders and wormholes in space. With the fascinating paradoxes of time travel echoing in our minds will we realize that travel into the future might never be possible? Or will we realize there is no...
17) Family tree
Pub. Date
c2002
Summary
Filling in the branches of a family tree used to be an arduous task, but the internet, DNA research, the increased availability of public records and a host of other factors makes this fun and fascinating job much easier. Through a host of compelling examples, FAMILY TREE shows the wealth of information that is now available, following amateur and professional genealogists as they uncover their personal history. And not all are doing so simply for...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Lexile Measure
500L
Summary
"Bailey's building a time machine... not to visit ancient Egypt or King Arthur's court, but to take her to last Thursday. That’s the day she said the Thing that made her best friend so mad. But when it's complete, Bailey discovers the only thing harder than building a time machine is having the courage to revisit a moment you regret" --
20) The 1900 house
Pub. Date
c2003
Summary
Just how good were the good old days? Travel back in time with the Bowler family, smitten by the idea of experiencing the Victorian lifestyle right down to corsets, chamber pots and cutthroat razors, as they turn back the calendar to spring of 1900. Their eye-opening experiences of the grueling demands of a bygone era help them to understand another era with an exceptional clarity and a unique perspective.