

A Tale of Time City
Books | Young Adult Fiction / Fantasy / Historical
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Diana Wynne Jones
A thrilling story by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones—with an introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin.London, 1939. Vivian Smith thinks she is being evacuated to the countryside, because of the war. But she is being kidnapped - out of her own time. Her kidnappers are Jonathan and Sam, two boys her own age, from a place called Time City, designed especially to oversee history. But now history is going critical, and Jonathan and Sam are convinced that Time City's impending doom can only be averted by a twentieth-century girl named Vivian Smith. Too bad they have the wrong girl. . . .
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Author
Diana Wynne Jones
Pages
384
Publisher
Penguin
Published Date
2012-04-12
ISBN
1101567007 9781101567005
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"Interesting ideas and concepts of time travel. Very visual. Not sure why but it fell a bit flat for me and I can't put my finger on the reason. It is still good read maybe just my timing (pun intended) was off and it is a case of right book wrong time."
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