Description for Timesnatch
Paperback. Once a creature is extinct, it's gone for ever, isn't it? Not any more - as a butterfly from the past proves. The physicist mother of Kizzy Rye and Fraser Rye has invented an amazing time machine that can travel back into the past, snatch a plant or animal now extinct and bring it back into the present. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: YFH. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 195 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 130.
Once a creature is extinct, it's gone for ever, isn't it? Not any more - as a butterfly from the past proves. The physicist mother of Kizzy Rye and Fraser Rye has invented an amazing time machine that can travel back into the past, snatch a plant or animal now extinct and bring it back into the present. It's a wonderful achievement, a real scientific breakthrough. But the machine - 'Rye's Apparatus' - has a horrifying potential. Suddenly Kizzy and Fraser find themselves caught up in a terrifying spiral of events - events that lead finally to a ... Read more
Once a creature is extinct, it's gone for ever, isn't it? Not any more - as a butterfly from the past proves. The physicist mother of Kizzy Rye and Fraser Rye has invented an amazing time machine that can travel back into the past, snatch a plant or animal now extinct and bring it back into the present. It's a wonderful achievement, a real scientific breakthrough. But the machine - 'Rye's Apparatus' - has a horrifying potential. Suddenly Kizzy and Fraser find themselves caught up in a terrifying spiral of events - events that lead finally to a ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Corgi Yearling
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780440864660
SKU
KST0006828
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Robert Swindells
ROBERT SWINDELLS left school at fifteen to work on a local newspaper. At seventeen, he joined the RAF for three years, then trained and worked as a teacher. Now a full-time writer, he is the author of a number of bestselling titles for the Random House children's list. In 1994 he won the Carnegie Medal for STONE COLD (Hamish Hamilton), ... Read more
Reviews for Timesnatch
"'Spellbinding plot... an unstoppable pace... a stirring achievement, certain to absorb and provoke a wide audience' Times Educational Supplement" "'A fast-moving, readable thriller which will provoke considerable questioning and thought' Books for Keeps" "Mentioned on letters page"
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