Time Fantasies for Young Readers
Discover enchanting time travel fantasies for young readers! From Lloyd Alexander's Time Cat to Philippa Pearce's Tom's Midnight Garden, this curated list of juvenile fiction and magical novels—including Magic Elizabeth and The Root Cellar—sparks imagination with timeless adventures through history, mystery, and wonder. Perfect for kids who love books about time, dolls, and spellbinding journeys!
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Tom's Midnight Garden
by Philippa Pearce
Tom is furious. His brother, Peter, has measles, so now Tom is being shipped off to stay with Aunt Gwen and Uncle Alan in their boring old apartment. There'll be nothing to do there and no one to play with. Tom just counts the days till he can return home to Peter.Then one night the landlady's antique grandfather clock strikes thirteen times leading Tom to a wonderful, magical discovery and marking the beginning of a secret that's almost too amazing to be true. But it is true, and in the new world that Tom discovers is a special friend named Hatty and more than a summer's worth of adventure for both of them. Now Tom wishes he could stay with his relativesand Hatty -- forever...
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The Root Cellar
by Janet Lunn
Twelve-year-old orphan Rose, sent to live with unknown relatives on a farm in Canada, ventures into her aunt's root cellar and finds herself making friends with people who lived on the farm more than a century earlier.
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A Well-Timed Enchantment
by Vivian Vande Velde
Originally published: [New York]: Crown Publishers, 1990.
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The Doll in the Garden
by Mary Downing Hahn
Ten-year-old Ashley follows a kitten through an opening in the hedge; into a garden she has been warned never to go to.
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Magic Elizabeth
by Norma Kassirer
An eight-year-old girl is transported into the past while looking for a lost doll in her aunt's memory chest.
