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
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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.
"'Spellbinding plot... an unstoppable pace... a stirring achievement, certain to absorb and provoke a wide audience' Times Educational Supplement""'A fast-moving, readable thriller which will provoke considerable questioning and thought' Books for Keeps""Mentioned on letters page" * SFX *
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A gripping thriller about time travel - from a Carnegie Medal-winning author.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780440864660
Publisert
1995-06-08
Utgiver
Vendor
Yearling (imprint of Random House Children's Books)
Vekt
130 gr
Høyde
195 mm
Bredde
131 mm
Dybde
12 mm
Aldersnivå
02, J
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
176
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