A Traveller in Time
Published on 11. February 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-1-68137-448-2 (ISBN)
Description
When, in the late 1930s, Penelope is sent to stay with relatives in a remote ancient farmhouse in Derbyshire, she finds herself mysteriously transported to Elizabethan times where her sixteenth-century family is scheming to free the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots, but, even with her twentieth-century knowledge, Penelope remains helpless in the face of danger.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Children/juvenile
US School Grade: From Fourth Grade to Seventh Grade, Interest Age: From 9 to 12 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 193 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-68137-448-2 (9781681374482)
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Alison Uttley (1884-1976) developed a love of science at school and won a scholarship for physics at Manchester University. Her husband died in 1930, and in order to support herself and her son, she began to write a series of imaginary stories about animals such as Little Grey Rabbit, Little Red Fox, Sam Pig, and Hare. Before her death she wrote more than one hundred books.
Phyllis Bray (1911-1991) was an English painter, illustrator, and muralist.