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Highlights
- Long-separated identical twins Ellie and Kat are practically strangers when they accidentally launch themselves into the past with their inventor mother's half-finished time machine.
- 7-12 Years
- 8.0" x 5.25" Paperback
- 300 Pages
- Juvenile Fiction, Action & Adventure
- Series Name: The Time-Jinx Twins
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Long-separated identical twins Ellie and Kat are practically strangers when they accidentally launch their inventor mother's half-finished time machine. Amidst trouble and danger, will time prove to be their friend?
Book Synopsis
Long-separated identical twins Ellie and Kat are practically strangers when they accidentally launch themselves into the past with their inventor mother's half-finished time machine. A truce is the only way to survive and find a way home.
Not that 1970 Chicago is so bad. Their supercool young hippie grandma is there, plus a new friend who might be a genius, and 10-cent Snickers!
But home is home. Seeking help at a university physics department, they end up exposing their tiny time machine to the greedy gaze of Professor Wilkes Lavin. When Lavin swipes the machine for his own schemes, Ellie and Kat resolve to think like scientists and do whatever it takes to get home.
In tricky situations, escapes, and sometimes just for fun, the sisters make the most of their identical twinness. Ellie's acrobatics and aikido come in handy; Kat calls on her tech know-how and, to Ellie's surprise, hidden talents for singing and improv.
If they aren't careful, they just might become friends!
Review Quotes
"An endearing and engaging middle-grade adventure ... To navigate the past, the twins have to learn to work together using Kat's research and acting skills in tandem with Ellie's parkour, aikido, and gymnastic abilities. Saller's conceptualization of time travel is unconvoluted ... The action is fun and the descriptions are engaging." -Kirkus Reviews
"Saller launches a middle-grade science fiction series with this clever, captivating time travel adventure, which focuses on long-divided twins who learn to support and champion each other ... There's an endearing optimism to the twins and their story, science fiction that avoids the dystopian and fatalistic, giving its conscientious characters the opportunity to right wrongs and mend broken connections, with time." -Publishers Weekly Booklife
"The Time-Jinx Twins is smart, adventurous, and emotional. A winner! More, please!" -Liesl Shurtliff, New York Times bestselling author of the Time Castaways trilogy
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