#14 Sci-Fi eBooks About Time Travel

     Not long ago, the idea of students reading books on a digital reading device like the Nook and the Kindle would have fit nicely in the realm of science fiction.  Now it is a reality.

     That explains why I feel that this theme of time travel for my eBook recommendations is so very appropriate!

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     I have four titles to offer in this post, and the most recent is entitled The Magic Half, published in 2008 by author Annie Barrows.  It is the story of an eleven-year-old girl who has two sets of twins in her family.  She feels left out until she travels back in time and discovers her own lost twin.  This eBooks sells for $1.63 on Barnes and Noble and Amazon for their Nook and Kindle readers.

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     Dinosaurs Before Dark is the first of the Magic Tree House Series of time travel books.  Written by Mary Pope Osborne, it was first published in 1992.  Jack and Annie discover a tree house with a book that allows them to travel back to prehistoric times.  This eBook sells for $4.99 for both the Nook and the Kindle.

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     The first of another popular time travel series was published one year earlier.  The Knights of the Kitchen Table was the first of the wittyTime Warp Trio Series by Jon Scieszka.  It was published in 1991. After Joe receives a mysterious gift from his uncle for his tenth birthday, he finds that he and his friends, Fred and Sam, can travel to the land of knights and dragons. This eBook also sells for $4.99 for Nook and Kindle reading devices.

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     Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time was published in 1962 and won a Newberry Medal for it the following year.  It is the story of Meg and Charles Wallace who with their friend Calvin O'Keefe enter a tesseract (a wrinkle in time) to search for the Wallace children's missing father. It sells as an eBook for both Nook and Kindle for $6.99. 

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     (Did you notice that Barnes and Noble and Amazon may be trying to coordinate their prices?)

     Next time I will recommend eBooks about strong, independent kids.

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#13 Ebooks About Kids Who Move

     We live in an increasingly mobile society, but moving from place to place is not really a new phenomenon.  Today, I will recommend some excellent chapter books on this subject. They are all available as Ebooks at barnesandnoble.com for Nook reading devices and on amazon.com for Kindles.  

     Free apps are also available so that these books can be downloaded to home computers, ipads, some smart phones, and many other devices. 

     My first two recommendations were published in the last ten years.  One of them is usually read by (or to) children in the early grades and the other is more suitable for middle-grade readers.

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     Gooney Bird Green, first published in 2004 by Lois Lowrey, is about a new second-grade student.  Something of an expert in the art of story telling, Gooney Bird Green insists that all of her amazing stories are completely true.  Then she surprises her new classmates by explaining how it is possible.  The Ebook is available for Barnes and Noble's Nook at $9.99 and Amazon's Kindle for $5.69.

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     The Green Glass Sea was first published in 2006 by Ellen Klages.  Set in 1943 in Los Alamos, New Mexico, it is the story of kids who might have moved there with their families at the time the Manhattan Project was being developed. B&N sells it for the Nook for $8.99 and Amazon sells it for Kindle for $8.99.

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     Teetoncey (Book 1 of the Cape Hatteras Trilogy), published in 1974, is another wonderful book by Theodore Taylor whom you may recognize as the author of The Cay and The Trouble With Tuck (see the previous post about animal stories).  The setting for Teetoncey is the Outer Banks of North Carolina in 1898.  A shipwreck leaves one lone survivor on the shore, a comatose young girl with no identification. This book sells for $9.30 on B&N for their Nook and $7.99 on Amazon for Kindle.

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     I like to recommend one classic in each of my lists, and my recommendation of a book that has stood the test of time and fits into our theme about kids who move to a new place is Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, first published in 1908.  Set on Prince Edward Island, it is the story of an elderly brother and sister who request a boy to help with the farm work, but receive a girl, instead.  Barnes and Noble and Amazon both sell it for $.99.

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     Next time I will recommend three Ebooks about time travel, one of which is a children's classic.

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