A Traveller in Time

This reprint of a 1939 novel for teens by Allison Uttley restores to readers one of the best timeslip fantasies ever written.  An account of nine-year-old Penelope's interaction with ancient England under Mary Queen of Scots, this book evokes the joy of magical transport to a vanished era. And it's a wonderful family summer read aloud.

June 19: On this day in 1816, the Shelleys, Lord Byron, and entourage gathered at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva to tell the ghost stories that would trigger Frankenstein. This most legendary of storm-tossed evenings inspired…

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's

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